English Dictionary: ade | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Abrade \Ab*rade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abrading}.] [L. abradere, abrasum, to scrape off; ab + radere to scrape. See {Rase}, {Raze}.] To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. --Lyell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Abrade \A*brade"\, v. t. Same as {Abraid}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Accolade \Ac`co*lade"\ (#; 277), n. [F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck.] 1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. 2. (Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Aggrade \Ag*grade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aggraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aggrading}.] (Phys. Geog.) To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Alcade \Al*cade"\, n. Var. of {Alcaid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Alcade \Al*cade"\ ([acr]k*k[amac]d"), n. Same as {Alcaid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Alidade \Al"i*dade\, n. [LL. alidada, alhidada, fr. Ar. al-'id[be]da a sort of rule: cf. F. alidade.] The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument --Whewell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ambassade \Am"bas*sade\, Embassade \Em"bas*sade\, n. [F. ambassade. See {Embassy}.] 1. The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] --Carew. 2. An embassy. [Obs.] --Strype. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, n. [F. embuscade, fr. It. imboscata, or Sp. emboscada, fr. emboscar to ambush, fr. LL. imboscare. See {Ambush}, v. t.] 1. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush. 2. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly. [R.] --Dryden. 3. (Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambuscaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambuscading}.] 1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush. 2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. i. To lie in ambush. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anti-trade \An"ti-trade`\, n. A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30[deg] and 50[deg] of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anti-trade \An"ti-trade`\, n. A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Arcade \Ar*cade"\, n. [F. arcade, Sp. arcada, LL. arcata, fr. L. arcus bow, arch.] 1. (Arch.) (a) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature. (b) A long, arched building or gallery. 2. An arched or covered passageway or avenue. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Arquebusade \Ar`que*bus*ade"\, n. [F. arquebusade shot of an arquebus; eau d'arquebusade a vulnerary for gunshot wounds.] 1. The shot of an arquebus. --Ash. 2. A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. --Parr. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grade \Grade\, n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. {Congress}, {Degree}, {Gradus}.] 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. {At grade}, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. {Down grade}, a descent, as on a graded railroad. {Up grade}, an ascent, as on a graded railroad. {Equating for grades}. See under {Equate}. {Grade crossing}, a crossing at grade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bade \Bade\ A form of the pat tense of {Bid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.) {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.] 1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). 2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay. 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold. 5. To invite; to call in; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave. {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Balance \Bal"ance\, n. [OE. balaunce, F. balance, fr. L. bilan[?], bilancis, having two scales; bis twice (akin to E. two) + lanx plate, scale.] 1. An apparatus for weighing. Note: In its simplest form, a balance consists of a beam or lever supported exactly in the middle, having two scales or basins of equal weight suspended from its extremities. Another form is that of the Roman balance, our steelyard, consisting of a lever or beam, suspended near one of its extremities, on the longer arm of which a counterpoise slides. The name is also given to other forms of apparatus for weighing bodies, as to the combinations of levers making up platform scales; and even to devices for weighing by the elasticity of a spring. 2. Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. --Atterbury. 3. Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. 4. The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. --Cowper. The order and balance of the country were destroyed. --Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. --J. S. Mill. 5. An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. [bd] A balance at the banker's. [b8] --Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. --J. Peile. 6. (Horol.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See {Balance wheel} (in the Vocabulary). 7. (Astron.) (a) The constellation Libra. (b) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See {Balance}, v. i., S. {Balance electrometer}, a kind of balance, with a poised beam, which indicates, by weights suspended from one arm, the mutual attraction of oppositely electrified surfaces. --Knight. {Balance fish}. (Zo[94]l) See {Hammerhead}. {Balance knife}, a carving or table knife the handle of which overbalances the blade, and so keeps it from contact with the table. {Balance of power}. (Politics), such an adjustment of power among sovereign states that no one state is in a position to interfere with the independence of the others; international equilibrium; also, the ability ( of a state or a third party within a state) to control the relations between sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. {Balance sheet} (Bookkeeping), a paper showing the balances of the open accounts of a business, the debit and credit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balances correctly taken. {Balance thermometer}, a thermometer mounted as a balance so that the movement of the mercurial column changes the indication of the tube. With the aid of electrical or mechanical devices adapted to it, it is used for the automatic regulation of the temperature of rooms warmed artificially, and as a fire alarm. {Balance of torsion}. See {Torsion Balance}. {Balance of trade} (Pol. Econ.), an equilibrium between the money values of the exports and imports of a country; or more commonly, the amount required on one side or the other to make such an equilibrium. {Balance valve}, a valve whose surfaces are so arranged that the fluid pressure tending to seat, and that tending to unseat the valve, are nearly in equilibrium; esp., a puppet valve which is made to operate easily by the admission of steam to both sides. See {Puppet valve}. {Hydrostatic balance}. See under {Hydrostatic}. {To lay in balance}, to put up as a pledge or security. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To strike a balance}, to find out the difference between the debit and credit sides of an account. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ballade \Bal*lade"\, n. [See {Ballad}, n.] A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ballotade \Bal"lo*tade`\, n. [F. ballottade, fr. ballotter to toss. See {Ballot}, v. i.] (Man.) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Balotade \Bal"o*tade`\, n. See {Ballotade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Balustrade \Bal"us*trade`\ (-tr[amac]d`), n. [F. balustrade, It. balaustrata fr. balaustro. See {Baluster}.] A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bambocciade \Bam*boc`ci*ade"\, n. [It. bambocciata, fr. Bamboccio a nickname of Peter Van Laer, a Dutch genre painter; properly, a child, simpleton, puppet, fr. bambo silly.] (Paint.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Barraclade \Bar"ra*clade\, n. [D. baar, OD. baer, naked, bare + kleed garment, i. e., cloth undressed or without nap.] A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] --Bartlett. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Barricade \Bar`ri*cade"\, n. [F. barricade, fr. Sp. barricada, orig. a barring up with casks; fr. barrica cask, perh. fr. LL. barra bar. See {Bar}, n., and cf. {Barrel}, n.] 1. (Mil.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access. 2. Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. --Derham. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Barricade \Bar`ri*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Barricaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Barricading}.] [Cf. F. barricader. See {Barricade}, n.] To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with barrels. --Hakluyt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bastinade \Bas`ti*nade"\, n. See {Bastinado}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bastinade \Bas`ti*nade"\, v. t. To bastinado. [Archaic] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Battery \Bat"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Batteries}. [F. batterie, fr. battre. See {Batter}, v. t.] 1. The act of battering or beating. 2. (Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. 3. (Mil.) (a) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense. (b) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field. (c) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. {Barbette battery}. See {Barbette}. {Battery d'enfilade}, or {Enfilading battery}, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. {Battery en [82]charpe}, one that plays obliquely. {Battery gun}, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. {Battery wagon}, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. {In battery}, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. {Masked battery}, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. {Out of battery}, or {From battery}, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading. 4. (Elec.) (a) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. (b) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. Note: In the trough battery, copper and zinc plates, connected in pairs, divide the trough into cells, which are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid; the effect is exhibited when wires connected with the two end-plates are brought together. In Daniell's battery, the metals are zinc and copper, the former in dilute sulphuric acid, or a solution of sulphate of zinc, the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of copper. A modification of this is the common gravity battery, so called from the automatic action of the two fluids, which are separated by their specific gravities. In Grove's battery, platinum is the metal used with zinc; two fluids are used, one of them in a porous cell surrounded by the other. In Bunsen's or the carbon battery, the carbon of gas coke is substituted for the platinum of Grove's. In Leclanch[82]'s battery, the elements are zinc in a solution of ammonium chloride, and gas carbon surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell. A secondary battery is a battery which usually has the two plates of the same kind, generally of lead, in dilute sulphuric acid, and which, when traversed by an electric current, becomes charged, and is then capable of giving a current of itself for a time, owing to chemical changes produced by the charging current. A storage battery is a kind of secondary battery used for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical charges or currents, usually by means of chemical work done by them; an accumulator. 5. A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc. 6. (Metallurgy) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. --Knight. 7. The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. 8. (Baseball) The pitcher and catcher together. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bejade \Be*jade"\, v. t. To jade or tire. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\, n. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. [bd]Lower blade[b8] implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. --H. Sweet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\ (bl[amac]d), v. t. To furnish with a blade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\, v. i. To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. --P. Fletcher. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blade \Blade\ (bl[amac]d), n. [OE. blade, blad, AS. bl[91]d leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla[edh], OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl[omac]wan, E. blow, to blossom. See {Blow} to blossom, and cf. {Foil} leaf of metal.] 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. --Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. --Mark iv. 28. 2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. 3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. 4. The scapula or shoulder blade. 5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale. 6. pl. (Com.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. --De Colange. 7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. --Coleridge. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blockade \Block*ade"\, n. [Cf. It. bloccata. See {Block}, v. t. ] 1. The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy. Note: Blockade is now usually applied to an investment with ships or vessels, while siege is used of an investment by land forces. To constitute a blockade, the investing power must be able to apply its force to every point of practicable access, so as to render it dangerous to attempt to enter; and there is no blockade of that port where its force can not be brought to bear. --Kent. 2. An obstruction to passage. {To raise a blockade}. See under {Raise}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blockade \Block*ade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blockaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blockading}.] 1. To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under {Blockade}, n. [bd]Blockaded the place by sea.[b8] --Gilpin. 2. Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. Till storm and driving ice blockade him there. --Wordsworth. 3. To obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trade \Trade\, n. [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See {Tread}, n. & v.] 1. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. --Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. --Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. --Shak. 2. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] [bd]The right trade of religion.[b8] --Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. --Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. --Massinger. Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. --Shak. 3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us? --Shak. 4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. Note: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water. 5. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Accursed usury was all his trade. --Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. --Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. --Shak. 6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. --Dryden. 7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade. 8. pl. The trade winds. 9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.] Syn: Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. {Board of trade}. See under {Board}. {Trade dollar}. See under {Dollar}. {Trade price}, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. {Trade sale}, an auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers. {Trade wind}, a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade. Note: The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Board \Board\, n. [OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. bor[?] board, side of a ship, Goth. f[?]tu-baurd]/> footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. [root]92.] 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. Note: When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. 2. A table to put food upon. Note: The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. --Halliwell. Fruit of all kinds . . . She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. --Milton. 3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. 4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. --Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. --Porteus. 5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. 6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. 7. pl. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. 8. [In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. {Border}.] The border or side of anything. (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship. [bd]Now board to board the rival vessels row.[b8] --Dryden. See {On board}, below. (b) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. Note: Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure. {The American Board}, a shortened form of [bd]The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions[b8] (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches). {Bed and board}. See under {Bed}. {Board and board} (Naut.), side by side. {Board of control}, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. --Stormonth. {Board rule}, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. --Haldeman. {Board of trade}, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce. {Board wages}. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. --Dryden. {By the board}, over the board, or side. [bd]The mast went by the board.[b8] --Totten. Hence (Fig.), {To go by the board}, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow. {To enter on the boards}, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [Cambridge, England.] [bd]Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college.[b8] --Hallam. {To make a good board} (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward. {To make short boards}, to tack frequently. {On board}. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [Colloq. U. S.] {Returning board}, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bottom \Bot"tom\, a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. {Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. --Milton. {Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands. {Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile.] 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. --Pope. 2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.] 3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.] {Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}. {Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boutade \Bou*tade"\, n. [F., fr. bouter to thrust. See {Butt}.] An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bravade \Bra*vade"\ (br[adot]*v[amac]d"), n. Bravado. [Obs.] --Fanshawe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Brigade \Bri*gade"\, n. [F. brigade, fr. It. brigata troop, crew, brigade, originally, a contending troop, fr. briga trouble, quarrel. See {Brigand}.] 1. (Mil.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general. Note: Two or more brigades constitute a division, commanded by a major general; two or more divisions constitute an army corps, or corps d'arm[82]e. [U.S.] 2. Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade. {Brigade inspector}, an officer whose duty is to inspect troops in companies before they are mustered into service. {Brigade major}, an officer who may be attached to a brigade to assist the brigadier in his duties. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Brigade \Bri*gade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brigaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Brigading}.] (Mil.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Brocade \Bro*cade"\, n. [Sp. brocado (cf. It. broccato, F. brocart), fr. LL. brocare *prick, to figure (textile fabrics), to emboss (linen), to stitch. See {Broach}.] Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. --W. Irving. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cade \Cade\, a. [Cf. OE. cad, kod, lamb, also {Cosset}, {Coddle}.] Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. --Sheldon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cade \Cade\, v. t. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cade \Cade\, n. [L. cadus jar, Gr. [?].] A barrel or cask, as of fish. [bd]A cade of herrings.[b8] --Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. --Jacob, Law Dict. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cade \Cade\, n. [F. & Pr.; LL. cada.] A species of juniper ({Juniperus Oxycedrus}) of Mediterranean countries. {Oil of cade}, a thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Camerade \Came"rade\, n. See {Comrade}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Camisade \Cam`i*sade"\, Camisado \Cam`i*sa"do\, n. [F. camisade a night attack; cf. It. camiciata. See {Camis}.] [Obs.] (Mil.) (a) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. (b) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. --Holinshed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, n. [F. Canonnade; cf. It. cannanata.] 1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. --Prescott. 2. Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. --Ewerson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cannonade}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cannonading}.] To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, v. i. To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Carbonade \Car"bo*nade\, Carbonado \Car`bo*na"do\, n. [Cf. F. carbonnade, It. carbonata, Sp. carbonada, from L. carbo coal.] (Cookery) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Carbonado \Car`bo*na"do\, Carbonade \Car"bo*nade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carbonadoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Carbonadoing}.] 1. To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. --Bean. & Fl. 2. To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.] I'll so carbonado your shanks. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Carronade \Car`ron*ade\, n. [From Carron, in Scotland where it was first made.] (Med.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Carrying \Car"ry*ing\, n. The act or business of transporting from one place to another. {Carrying place}, a carry; a portage. {Carrying trade}, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. --Jay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cascade \Cas*cade"\, n. [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to ball.] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. --Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. --Cawper. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cascade \Cas*cade"\, v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. --Lowell. 2. To vomit. [Slang] --Smollett. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cassonade \Cas`son*ade"\, n. [F., fr. casson, for caisson a large chest. This sugar comes from Brazil in large chests.] Raw sugar; sugar not refined. --Mc Elrath. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cavalcade \Cav"al*cade`\, n. [F. cavalcade, fr. It. cavalcata, fr. cavalcare to go on horseback, fr. LL. caballicare, fr. L. caballus an inferior horse, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Cavalier}, {Cavalry}.] A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. --Prescott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Centigrade \Cen"ti*grade\, a. [L. centum a hundred + gradus degree: cf. F. centigrade.] Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10[f8] centigrade (or 10[f8] C.). {Centigrade thermometer}, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into one hundred degrees. It is called also the {Celsius thermometer}, from Anders Celsius, the originator of this scale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chamade \Cha*made\, n. [F. chamade, fr. Pg. chamada, fr. chamar to call, fr. L. clamare.] (Mil.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Charade \Cha*rade"\, n. [F. charade, cf. Pr. charrada long chat, It ciarlare to chat, whence E. charlatan.] A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ciliograde \Cil"i*o*grade\, a. [Cilium + L. gradi to step: cf. F. ciliograde.] (Zo[94]l.) Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medus[91]. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cirrigrade \Cir"ri*grade\, a. [Cirrus + L. gradi to walk.] (Biol.) Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Citigrade \Cit"i*grade\, a. [Cf. F. citigrade.] (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the Citigrad[91]. -- n. One of the Citigrad[91]. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coasting \Coast"ing\, a. Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. {Coasting trade}, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished from foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. {Coasting vessel}, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cockade \Cock*ade"\, n. [F. cocarble, fr. coquard vain, OF. coquart, fr. coq cock, prob. of imitative origin. The ornament is so named from its resemblance to the crest of a cock. Cf. {Coquette}.] A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer. Seduced by military liveries and cockades. --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colonnade \Col`on*nade"\, n. [F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See {Colonel}.] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc. Note: When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Comrade \Com"rade\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [Sp. camarada, fr. L. camara, a chamber; hence, a chamber-fellowship, and then a chamber-fellow: cf. F. camarade. Cf. {Chamber}.] A mate, companion, or associate. And turned my flying comrades to the charge. --J. Baillie. I abjure all roofs, and choose . . . To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Corrade \Cor*rade"\ (k?r-r?d"), v. t. [L. corradere, -rasum; cor- + radere to rub.] 1. To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [Obs.] --Dr. R. Clerke. 2. (Geol.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See {Corrosion}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cottonade \Cot"ton*ade`\ (k?t"t'n-?d`), n. [F. cottonade.] A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Croisade \Croi*sade"\ (kroi-s?d"), Croisado \Croi*sa"do\ (-s?"d?), n. [F. criosade. See {Crusade}.] A holy war; a crusade. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Croupade \Crou*pade"\ (kr??-p?d"), n. [F., fr. croupe hind quarters.] (Man.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crusado \Cru*sa"do\ (-s?"d?), n. [Pg. cruzado, fr. cruz, fr. L. crux. See {Crusade}, 3.] An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also {cruade}.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crusade \Cru*sade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crusaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crusading}.] To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner. [bd]Cease crusading against sense.[b8] --M. Green. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crusade \Cru*sade"\ (kr?-s?d"), n. [F. croisade, fr. Pr. crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It. crociata, from a verb signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross, fr. L. crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly fr. Pr. Cf. {Croisade}, {Crosado}, and see {Cross}.] 1. Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans. 2. Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance. 3. A Portuguese coin. See {Crusado}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Aubade \[d8]Au`bade"\, n. [F., fr. aube the dawn, fr. L. albus white.] An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. --Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. --Longfellow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Calade \[d8]Ca*lade"\, n. [F.] A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Couvade \[d8]Cou`vade"\ (k[oomac]`v[adot]d"), n. [F., fr. couver. See {Covey}.] A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. --Tylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Croustade \[d8]Crou`stade"\ (kr??`st?d"), n. [F., fr. cro[?]te a crust, OF. crouste.] (Cookery) Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. --Bishop. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d1iliad \[d1]*il"iad\, d8d1illade \[d8][d1]il"lade`\, n. [F. [d2]illade, fr. [d2]el eye. See {Eyelent}.] A glance of the eye; an amorous look. [Obs.] She gave strange [d2]illades and most speaking looks. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Escouade \[d8]Es`couade"\, n. See {Squad}, | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Estacade \[d8]Es`ta*cade"\, n. [F.; cf. It. steccata, Sp. estacada. Cf. {Stake}.] (Mil.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Fa87ade \[d8]Fa`[87]ade"\ (f[adot]`s[adot]d" or f[adot]`s[amac]d"), n. [F., fr. It. facciata, fr. faccia face, L. facies. See {Face}.] (Arch.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its fa[87]ade unfinished, though the interior may be in use. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Fougade \[d8]Fou`gade"\, d8Fougasse \[d8]Fou`gasse"\, n. (Mil.) A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Gabionnade \[d8]Ga`bion`nade"\, n. See {Gabionade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Glissade \[d8]Glis`sade"\, n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps. --Tyndall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Noyade \[d8]No`yade"\, n. [F., fr. noyer to drown, L. necare to kill.] A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8R82molade \[d8]R[82]`mo`lade"\, d8R82moulade \[d8]R[82]`mou`lade"\, n. [F.] An ointment used in farriery. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8R82molade \[d8]R[82]`mo`lade"\ (r?`m?`l?d"), d8R82moulad \[d8]R[82]`mou`lad"\ (r?`m??`l?d"), n. [F.] A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8R82molade \[d8]R[82]`mo`lade"\, d8R82moulade \[d8]R[82]`mou`lade"\, n. [F.] An ointment used in farriery. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Roulade \[d8]Rou`lade"\, n. [F.] (Mus.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dade \Dade\, v. t. [Of. uncertain origin. Cf. {Dandle}, {Daddle}.] To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. --Drayton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dade \Dade\, v. i. To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.] No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip. --Drayton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damascus \Da*mas"cus\, n. [L.] A city of Syria. {Damascus blade}, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. {Damascus iron}, or {Damascus twist}, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance. {Damascus steel}. See {Damask steel}, under {Damask}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Deadly \Dead"ly\, a. 1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. --Shak. 3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. --Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). {Deadly nightshade} (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under {Nightshade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Belladonna \Bel`la*don"na\, n. [It., literally fine lady; bella beautiful + donna lady.] (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous European plant ({Atropa belladonna}) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also {deadly nightshade}. (b) A species of {Amaryllis} ({A. belladonna}); the belladonna lily. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Deadly \Dead"ly\, a. 1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. --Shak. 3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. --Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). {Deadly nightshade} (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under {Nightshade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Belladonna \Bel`la*don"na\, n. [It., literally fine lady; bella beautiful + donna lady.] (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous European plant ({Atropa belladonna}) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also {deadly nightshade}. (b) A species of {Amaryllis} ({A. belladonna}); the belladonna lily. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Decade \Dec"ade\, n. [F. d[82]cade, L. decas, -adis, fr. Gr. [?], fr. de`ka ten. See {Ten}.] A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also {decad}.] During this notable decade of years. --Gladstone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Defilade \De`fi*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Defiladed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Defilading}.] [Cf. F. d[82]filer to defile, and d[82]filade act of defiling. See 1st {Defile}.] (Mil.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Degrade \De*grade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Degraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Degrading}.] [F. d[82]grader, LL. degradare, fr. L. de- + gradus step, degree. See {Grade}, and cf. {Degree}.] 1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. --Palfrey. 2. To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man. O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved! --Milton. Yet time ennobles or degrades each line. --Pope. Her pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. --Macaulay. 3. (Geol.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Syn: To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See {Abase}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Degrade \De*grade"\, v. i. (Biol.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Demibrigade \Dem"i*bri*gade"\, n. [Cf. F. demi- brigade.] A half brigade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Digitigrade \Dig"i*ti*grade\, a. [L. digitus finger, toe + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. digitigrade.] (Zo[94]l.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Digitigrade \Dig"i*ti*grade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Disgrade \Dis*grade"\, v. t. To degrade. [Obs.] --Foxe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dislade \Dis*lade"\, v. t. To unlade. [Obs.] --Heywood. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dissuade \Dis*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dissuaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dissuading}.] [L. dissuadere, dissuasum; dis- + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. dissuader. See {Suasion}.] 1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. --Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. --Milton. 2. To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. I have tried what is possible to dissuade him. --Mad. D' Arblay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Double-shade \Dou"ble-shade`\, v. t. To double the natural darkness of (a place). --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grade \Grade\, n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. {Congress}, {Degree}, {Gradus}.] 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. {At grade}, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. {Down grade}, a descent, as on a graded railroad. {Up grade}, an ascent, as on a graded railroad. {Equating for grades}. See under {Equate}. {Grade crossing}, a crossing at grade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dragonnade \Drag`on*nade"\ (dr[acr]g`[ocr]n*n[amac]d"), n. [F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.] The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. --C. Kingsley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dragoonade \Drag`oon*ade"\, n. See {Dragonnade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parade \Pa*rade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See {Pare}, v. t.] 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. 2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift. 4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. In state returned the grand parade. --Swift. 5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. --Locke. 6. A public walk; a promenade. {Dress parade}, {Undress parade}. See under {Dress}, and {Undress}. {Parade rest}, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. --Wilhelm. Syn: Ostentation; display; show. Usage: {Parade}, {Ostentation}. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. [bd]It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.[b8] --Robertson. [bd]We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.[b8] --Spectator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dress \Dress\, n. 1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel. [bd]In your soldier's dress.[b8] --Shak. 2. A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress. 3. Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. -- Pope. 4. (Milling) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. --Knight. {Dress circle}. See under {Circle}. {Dress parade} (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ebrillade \E*bril"lade\ ([esl]*br[icr]l"l[acr]d), n. [F.] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ambassade \Am"bas*sade\, Embassade \Em"bas*sade\, n. [F. ambassade. See {Embassy}.] 1. The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] --Carew. 2. An embassy. [Obs.] --Strype. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Embassade \Em"bas*sade\, n. [F. ambassade. See {Embassy}.] An embassy. See {Ambassade}. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Enchanter \En*chant"er\, n. [Cf. F. enchanteur.] One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment. Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. --Shelley. {Enchanter's nightshade} (Bot.), a genus ({Circ[91]a}) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Enfilade \En`fi*lade"\ (?; 277), n. [F., fr. enfiler to thread, go trough a street or square, rake with shot; pref. en- (L. in) + fil thread. See {File} a row.] 1. A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.] 2. (Mil.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Enfilade \En`fi*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enfiladed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Enfilading}.] (Mil.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. --Campbell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Escalade \Es`ca*lade"\, n. [F., Sp. escalada (cf. It. scalata), fr. Sp. escalar to scale, LL. scalare, fr. L. scala ladder. See {Scale}, v. t.] (Mil.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. --Buckminster. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Escalade \Es`ca*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Escaladed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Escalading}.] (Mil.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Escapade \Es`ca*pade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. escapada escape, fr. escapar to escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to escape. see {Escape}.] 1. The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Esplanade \Es`pla*nade"\, n. [F. esplanade, Sp. esplanada, explanada, cf. It. spianata; fr. Sp. explanar to level, L. explanare to flatten or spread out. See {Explain}.] 1. (Fort.) (a) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. --Campbell (Mil. Dict. ). (b) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country. 2. (Hort.) A grass plat; a lawn. --Simmonds. 3. Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Estrade \Es`trade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. estrado, orig., a carpet on the floor of a room, also, a carpeted platform, fr. L. stratum bed covering. See {Stratum}.] (Arch.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. --J. G. Fitch. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Estrapade \Es`tra*pade"\, n. [F.] (Man.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Evade \E*vade"\, v. t. 1. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. [bd]Evading from perils.[b8] --Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. --Milton. 2. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways. --South. Syn: To equivocate; shuffle. See {Prevaricate}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Evade \E*vade"\ ([?]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Evading}.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'[82]vader. See {Wade}.] To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. --Trench. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Everglade \Ev`er*glade\, n. A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fade \Fade\a. [F., prob. fr. L. vapidus vapid, or possibly fr,fatuus foolish, insipid.] Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] [bd]Passages that are somewhat fade.[b8] --Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. --De Quincey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fade \Fade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fading}.] [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov. D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf. {Fade}, a., {Vade}.] 1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. The earth mourneth and fadeth away. --Is. xxiv. 4. 2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. [bd]Flowers that never fade.[b8] --Milton. 3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. The stars shall fade away. --Addison He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fade \Fade\, v. t. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Falcade \Fal*cade"\ (f[acr]l*k[amac]d"), n. [F., ultimately fr. L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.] (Man.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. --Harris. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fanfaronade \Fan*far`on*ade"\, n. [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See {Fanfaron}.] A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. --Swift. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grenade \Gre*nade"\, n. [F. grenade a pomegranate, a grenade, or Sp. granada; orig., filled with seeds. So called from the resemblance of its shape to a pomegranate. See {Carnet}, {Grain} a kernel, and cf. {Pomegranate}.] (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. {Hand grenade}. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also {fire grenade}. {Rampart grenades}, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flanconade \Flan`co*nade"\, n. [F.] (Fencing) A thrust in the side. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Forbade \For*bade"\, imp. of {Forbid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Forbid \For*bid"\, v. t. [imp. {Forbade}; p. p. {Forbidden}({Forbid}, [Obs.]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Forbidding}.] [OE. forbeden, AS. forbe[a2]dan; pref. for- + be[a2]dan to bid; akin to D. verbieden, G. verbieten, Icel., fyrirbj[omac][edh]a, forbo[edh]a, Sw. f[94]rbjuda, Dan. forbyde. See {Bid}, v. t.] 1. To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict. More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. --Shak. 2. To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter. Have I not forbid her my house? --Shak. 3. To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army. A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. --Dryden. 4. To accurse; to blast. [Obs.] He shall live a man forbid. --Shak. 5. To defy; to challenge. [Obs.] --L. Andrews. Syn: To prohibit; interdict; hinder; preclude; withold; restrain; prevent. See {Prohibit}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Forest \For"est\, a. Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan. {Forest fly}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family {Tabanid[91]}, which attack both men and beasts. See {Horse fly}. (b) A fly of the genus {Hippobosca}, esp. {H. equina}. See {Horse tick}. {Forest glade}, a grassy space in a forest. --Thomson. {Forest laws}, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests. {Forest tree}, a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a {fruit tree}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frescade \Fres"cade\, n. [See {Fresco}, {Fresh}, a.] A cool walk; shady place. [R.] --Maunder. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fumade \Fu*made"\, Fumado \Fu*ma"do\, n.; pl. {Fumades}, {Fumadoes}. [Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr. L. fumare. See {Fume}, v. i.] A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fusillade \Fu"sil*lade"\, n. [F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See {Fusil} a firelock.] (Mil.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fusillade \Fu"sil*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fusillader}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fusillading}.] To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gabionade \Ga`bi*on*ade"\, n. [F. gabionnade.] 1. (Fort.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire. 2. A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gade \Gade\, n. [Cf. Cod the fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small British fish ({Motella argenteola}) of the Cod family. (b) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also {gead}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gallopade \Gal"lo*pade`\, n. [F. galopade. See {Gallop}, n.] 1. I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop. 2. A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gallopade \Gal`lo*pade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gallopaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gallopading}.] 1. To gallop, as on horseback. 2. To perform the dance called gallopade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, n. [F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting.] A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. --Swift. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gasconaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gasconading}.] To boast; to brag; to bluster. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile.] 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. --Pope. 2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.] 3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.] {Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}. {Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glede \Glede\ (gl[emac]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[edh]a, Sw. glada. Cf. {Glide}, v. i.] (Zo[94]l.) The common European kite ({Milvus ictinus}). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also {glead}, {gled}, {gleed}, {glade}, and {glide}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile.] 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. --Pope. 2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.] 3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.] {Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}. {Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glede \Glede\ (gl[emac]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[edh]a, Sw. glada. Cf. {Glide}, v. i.] (Zo[94]l.) The common European kite ({Milvus ictinus}). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also {glead}, {gled}, {gleed}, {glade}, and {glide}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glissade \Glis*sade"\, n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] 1. A sliding, as down a snow slope. 2. A dance step consisting of a glide or slide to one side. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grade \Grade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grading}.] 1. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc. 2. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road. 3. (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grade \Grade\, n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. {Congress}, {Degree}, {Gradus}.] 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. {At grade}, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. {Down grade}, a descent, as on a graded railroad. {Up grade}, an ascent, as on a graded railroad. {Equating for grades}. See under {Equate}. {Grade crossing}, a crossing at grade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grade \Grade\, n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. The grade of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone. --Whittier. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Granade \Gra*nade"\, Granado \Gra*na"do\, n. See {Grenade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gravigrade \Grav"i*grade\, a. [L. gravis heavy + gradus step.] (Zo[94]l.) Slow-paced. -- n. One of the pachyderms. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Greillade \Greil"lade\, n. (Metal.) Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grenade \Gre*nade"\, n. [F. grenade a pomegranate, a grenade, or Sp. granada; orig., filled with seeds. So called from the resemblance of its shape to a pomegranate. See {Carnet}, {Grain} a kernel, and cf. {Pomegranate}.] (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. {Hand grenade}. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also {fire grenade}. {Rampart grenades}, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grillade \Gril*lade"\, n. [F. See {Grill}, v. t.] The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hade \Hade\, n. (Geol. & Mining) The deviation of a fault plane from the vertical. Note: The direction of the hade is the direction toward which the fault plane descends from an intersecting vertical line. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hade \Hade\, n. [Cf. heald inclined, bowed down, G. halde declivity.] 1. The descent of a hill. [Obs.] 2. (Mining) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hade \Hade\, v. i. (Mining) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grenade \Gre*nade"\, n. [F. grenade a pomegranate, a grenade, or Sp. granada; orig., filled with seeds. So called from the resemblance of its shape to a pomegranate. See {Carnet}, {Grain} a kernel, and cf. {Pomegranate}.] (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. {Hand grenade}. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also {fire grenade}. {Rampart grenades}, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Handmade \Hand"made"\, a. Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Harlequinade \Har"le*quin*ade`\, n. [F. arleguinade.] A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Heptade \Hep"tade\, n. [Cf. F. heptade. See {Heptad}.] The sum or number of seven. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hexade \Hex"ade\, n. [See {Hexad}.] A series of six numbers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Homemade \Home"made`\, a. Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. --Locke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Invade \In*vade"\, v. i. To make an invasion. --Brougham. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Invade \In*vade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Invading}.] [L. invadere, invasum; pref. in- in + vadere to go, akin to E. wade: cf. OF. invader, F. envahir. See {Wade}.] 1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.] Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. --Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain. Such an enemy Is risen to invade us. --Milton. 3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people. 4. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue. Syn: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See {Attack}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Irade \I*ra"de\ ([esl]*r[aum]"d[asl]), n. [Turk.] A decree of the Sultan. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jade \Jade\, n. [OE. jade; cf. Prov. E. yaud, Scot. yade, yad, yaud, Icel. jalda a mare.] 1. A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. --Chaucer. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. --Shak. She shines the first of battered jades. --Swift. 3. A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. --Burns. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jade \Jade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jading}.] 1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.] I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. --Shak. 3. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. --Locke. Syn: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass. Usage: To {Jade}, {Fatigue}, {Tire}, {Weary}. Fatigue is the generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a long and steady repetition of the same act or effort. A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person; a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on a long journey by a continual straining of the same muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant attention to business. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jade \Jade\, n. [F., fr. Sp. jade, fr. piedra de ijada stone of the side, fr. ijada flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Sp. ijada is derived fr. L. ilia flanks. Cf. {Iliac}.] (Min.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. Note: The general term jade includes nephrite, a compact variety of tremolite with a specific gravity of 3, and also the mineral jadeite, a silicate of alumina and soda, with a specific gravity of 3.3. The latter is the more highly prized and includes the feitsui of the Chinese. The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jade \Jade\, v. i. To become weary; to lose spirit. They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution. --South. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jeremiad \Jer`e*mi"ad\, Jeremiade \Jer`e*mi"ade\, n. [From Jeremiah, the prophet: cf. F. j[82]r[82]miade.] A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically. He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad. --Lamb. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Judge-made \Judge"-made`\, a. Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts judicial interpretation considered doing this. The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been. --Sir Frederick Pollock. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lade \Lade\, v. i. [See {Lade}, v. t.] 1. To draw water. [Obs.] 2. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lade \Lade\, n. [Prov. E., a ditch or drain. Cf. {Lode}, {Lead} to conduct.] 1. The mouth of a river. [Obs.] --Bp. Gibson. 2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lade \Lade\, v. t. [imp. {Laded}; p. p. {Laded}, {Laded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lading}.] [AS. hladan to heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG. hladan, ladan, Icel. hla[?]a, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth. afhlapan. Cf. {Load}, {Ladle}, {Lathe} for turning, {Last} a load.] 1. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. And they laded their asses with the corn. --Gen. xlii. 26. 2. To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. --Shak. 3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
2. Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. --Ps. cxix. 105. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. --Cowper. 3. (Elec.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See {Incandescent lamp}, under {Incandescent}. {[92]olipile lamp}, a hollow ball of copper containing alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited. --Weale. {Arc lamp} (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light. {D[89]bereiner's lamp}, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; -- named after the German chemist D[94]bereiner, who invented it. Called also {philosopher's lamp}. {Flameless lamp}, an aphlogistic lamp. {Lamp burner}, the part of a lamp where the wick is exposed and ignited. --Knight. {Lamp fount}, a reservoir for oil, in a lamp. {Lamp jack}. See 2d {Jack}, n., 4 (l) & (n) . {Lamp shade}, a screen, as of paper, glass, or tin, for softening or obstructing the light of a lamp. {Lamp shell} (Zo[94]l.), any brachiopod shell of the genus Terebratula and allied genera. The name refers to the shape, which is like that of an antique lamp. See {Terebratula}. {Safety lamp}, a miner's lamp in which the flame is surrounded by fine wire gauze, preventing the kindling of dangerous explosive gases; -- called also, from Sir Humphry Davy the inventor, {Davy lamp}. {To smell of the lamp}, to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lancepesade \Lance`pe*sade"\, n. [F. lancepessade, lanspessade, anspessade, It. lancia spezzata a broken lance or demilance, a demilance roan, a light horseman, bodyguard.] An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also {lance corporal}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ledger \Ledg"er\(l[ecr]j"[etil]r), n. [Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge, lie. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. [Written also {leger}.] 2. (Arch.) (a) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb. --Oxf. Gloss. (b) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight. [Written also {ligger}.] {Ledger bait}, fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc. --Walton. --J. H. Walsh. {Ledger blade},a stationary shearing blade in a machine for shearing the nap of cloth. {Ledger line}. See {Leger line}, under 3d {Leger}, a. {Ledger wall} (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall. --Raymond. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lemonade \Lem`on*ade"\ (l[ecr]m`[ucr]n*[amac]d"), n. [F. limonade; cf. Sp. limonada, It. limonata. See {Lemon}.] A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, imp. & p. p. of {Make}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mad}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, a. Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar. {Made up}. (a) Complete; perfect. [bd]A made up villain.[b8] --Shak. (b) Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story. (c) Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma[?]a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zo[94]l.) An earthworm. [Written also {made}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak[?]n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh[?]n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. [bd]And make the Libyan shores.[b8] --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. {To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. {To make account}. See under {Account}, n. {To make account of}, to esteem; to regard. {To make away}. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. {To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. {To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture. {To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. {To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose. {To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer. {To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. {To make free with}. See under {Free}, a. {To make good}. See under {Good}. {To make head}, to make headway. {To make light of}. See under {Light}, a. {To make little of}. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. {To make love to}. See under {Love}, n. {To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] {To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. {To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. {To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n. {To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. {To make no doubt}, to have no doubt. {To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. {To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. {To make of}. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. [bd]Makes she no more of me than of a slave.[b8] --Dryden. {To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. {To make out}. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. {To make over}, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. {To make sail}. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. {To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. {To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. {To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. {To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. {To make sure}. See under {Sure}. {To make up}. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. {To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. {To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. {To make water}. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. {To make way}, or {To make one's way}. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. {To make words}, to multiply words. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, imp. & p. p. of {Make}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mad}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, a. Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar. {Made up}. (a) Complete; perfect. [bd]A made up villain.[b8] --Shak. (b) Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story. (c) Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma[?]a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zo[94]l.) An earthworm. [Written also {made}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak[?]n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh[?]n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. [bd]And make the Libyan shores.[b8] --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. {To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. {To make account}. See under {Account}, n. {To make account of}, to esteem; to regard. {To make away}. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. {To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. {To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture. {To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. {To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose. {To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer. {To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. {To make free with}. See under {Free}, a. {To make good}. See under {Good}. {To make head}, to make headway. {To make light of}. See under {Light}, a. {To make little of}. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. {To make love to}. See under {Love}, n. {To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] {To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. {To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. {To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n. {To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. {To make no doubt}, to have no doubt. {To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. {To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. {To make of}. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. [bd]Makes she no more of me than of a slave.[b8] --Dryden. {To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. {To make out}. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. {To make over}, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. {To make sail}. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. {To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. {To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. {To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. {To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. {To make sure}. See under {Sure}. {To make up}. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. {To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. {To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. {To make water}. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. {To make way}, or {To make one's way}. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. {To make words}, to multiply words. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, imp. & p. p. of {Make}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mad}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Made \Made\, a. Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar. {Made up}. (a) Complete; perfect. [bd]A made up villain.[b8] --Shak. (b) Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story. (c) Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma[?]a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zo[94]l.) An earthworm. [Written also {made}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak[?]n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh[?]n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. [bd]And make the Libyan shores.[b8] --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. {To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. {To make account}. See under {Account}, n. {To make account of}, to esteem; to regard. {To make away}. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. {To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. {To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture. {To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. {To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose. {To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer. {To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. {To make free with}. See under {Free}, a. {To make good}. See under {Good}. {To make head}, to make headway. {To make light of}. See under {Light}, a. {To make little of}. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. {To make love to}. See under {Love}, n. {To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] {To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. {To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. {To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n. {To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. {To make no doubt}, to have no doubt. {To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. {To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. {To make of}. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. [bd]Makes she no more of me than of a slave.[b8] --Dryden. {To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. {To make out}. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. {To make over}, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. {To make sail}. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. {To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. {To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. {To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. {To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. {To make sure}. See under {Sure}. {To make up}. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. {To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. {To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. {To make water}. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. {To make way}, or {To make one's way}. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. {To make words}, to multiply words. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Marinade \Mar`i*nade"\, n. [F.: cf. It. marinato marinade, F. mariner to preserve food for use at sea. See {Marinate}.] (Cookery) A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Marmalade \Mar"ma*lade\, n. [F. marmelade, Pg. marmelada, fr. marm[82]lo a quince, fr. L. melimelum honey apple, Gr. [?] a sweet apple, an apple grafted on a quince; [?] honey + [?] apple. Cf. {Mellifluous}, {Melon}.] A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. {Marmalade tree} (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree ({Lucuma mammosa}) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single large seed. The fruit is called marmalade, or natural marmalade, from its consistency and flavor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Masqueraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Masquerading}.] 1. To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade. 2. To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. --L'Estrange. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, n. [F. mascarade, fr. Sp. mascarada, or It. mascherata. See {Mask}.] 1. An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. --Pope. 2. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st {Mask}, 4. [Obs.] 3. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise. That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. --De Quincey. 4. A Spanish diversion on horseback. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, v. t. To conceal with masks; to disguise. [bd]To masquerade vice.[b8] --Killingbeck. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mispersuade \Mis`per*suade"\, v. t. To persuade amiss. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moonglade \Moon"glade`\, n. The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mouth-made \Mouth"-made`\, a. Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. [bd]Mouth-made vows.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Naval brigade}, a body of seamen or marines organized for military service on land. {Naval officer}. (a) An officer in the navy. (b) A high officer in some United States customhouses. {Naval tactics}, the science of managing or maneuvering vessels sailing in squadrons or fleets. Syn: Nautical; marine; maritime. Usage: {Naval}, {Nautical}. Naval is applied to vessels, or a navy, or the things which pertain to them or in which they participate; nautical, to seamen and the art of navigation. Hence we speak of a naval, as opposed to a military, engagement; naval equipments or stores, a naval triumph, a naval officer, etc., and of nautical pursuits or instruction, nautical calculations, a nautical almanac, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nomade \Nom"ade\, n. [F.] See {Nomad}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cade \Cade\, n. [F. & Pr.; LL. cada.] A species of juniper ({Juniperus Oxycedrus}) of Mediterranean countries. {Oil of cade}, a thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Orangeade \Or`ange*ade"\, n. [F., fr. orange.] A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Orthostade \Or"tho*stade\, n. [Gr. [?]; 'orqo`s straight + [?] to place.] (Anc. Costume) A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Outbid \Out*bid"\, v. t. [imp. {Outbid} or {Outbade} ([?]); p. p. {Outbid} or {Outbidden} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Outbidding}.] To exceed or surpass in bidding. Prevent the greedy, and outbid the bold. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Overlade \O`ver*lade"\, v. t. [imp. {Overladed}; p. p. {Overladen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overlading}.] [Cf. {Overload}.] To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Overpersuade \O`ver*per*suade"\, v. t. To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Overshade \O`ver*shade`\, v. t. [AS. ofersceadwian. See {Over}, and {Shade}, and cf. {Overshadow}.] To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Overtrade \O`ver*trade"\, v. i. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palisade \Pal`i*sade"\, n. A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palisade \Pal`i*sade"\, n. [F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It. palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale. See {Pale} a stake.] 1. (Fort.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense. 2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. {Palisade cells} (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. {Palisade worm} (Zo[94]l.), a nematoid worm ({Strongylus armatus}), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palisade \Pal`i*sade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Palisaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palisading}.] [Cf. F. palissader.] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palmigrade \Pal"mi*grade\, a. [L. palma palm of the hand + gradi to walk.] (Zo[94]l.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Panada \Pa*na"da\, Panade \Pa*nade"\, n. [Sp. panada, fr. L. panis bread: cf. F. panade. See {Pantry}.] Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also {panado}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Panade \Pa*nade"\, n. A dagger. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pannade \Pan*nade"\, n. The curvet of a horse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. {Business paper}, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper. {Fly paper}, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies. {Laid paper}. See under {Laid}. {Paper birch} (Bot.), the canoe birch tree ({Betula papyracea}). {Paper blockade}, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force. {Paper boat} (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. {Paper car wheel} (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. --Forney. {Paper credit}, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc. {Paper hanger}, one who covers walls with paper hangings. {Paper hangings}, paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. {Paper house}, an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] {Paper money}, notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin. {Paper mulberry}. (Bot.) See under Mulberry. {Paper muslin}, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc. {Paper nautilus}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Argonauta}. {Paper reed} (Bot.), the papyrus. {Paper sailor}. (Zo[94]l.) See Argonauta. {Paper stainer}, one who colors or stamps wall paper. --De Colange. {Paper wasp} (Zo[94]l.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. {Paper weight}, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. {Parchment paper}. See {Papyrine}. {Tissue paper}, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. {Wall paper}. Same as {Paper hangings}, above. {Waste paper}, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. {Wove paper}, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parade \Pa*rade"\, v. i. 1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place. 2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parade \Pa*rade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See {Pare}, v. t.] 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. 2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift. 4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. In state returned the grand parade. --Swift. 5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. --Locke. 6. A public walk; a promenade. {Dress parade}, {Undress parade}. See under {Dress}, and {Undress}. {Parade rest}, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. --Wilhelm. Syn: Ostentation; display; show. Usage: {Parade}, {Ostentation}. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. [bd]It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.[b8] --Robertson. [bd]We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.[b8] --Spectator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parade \Pa*rade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parading}.] [Cf. F. parader.] 1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. Parading all her sensibility. --Byron. 2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pasquinade \Pas`quin*ade"\, n. [F. pasquinade, It. pasquinata.] A lampoon or satirical writing. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pasquinade \Pas`quin*ade"\, v. t. To lampoon, to satirize. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Passade \Pas*sade"\, Passado \Pas*sa"do\, n. [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. --Shak. 2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pavesade \Pav`e*sade"\, n. [F. See {Pavise}.] A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. i. To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Persuade \Per*suade"\, n. Persuasion. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Persuaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Persuading}.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See {Per-}, and {Suasion}.] 1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pervade \Per*vade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pervaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pervading}.] [L. pervadere, pervasum; per + vadere to go, to walk. See {Per-}, and {Wade}.] 1. To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. That labyrinth is easily pervaded. --Blackstone. 2. To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout. A spirit of cabal, intrigue, and proselytism pervaded all their thoughts, words, and actions. --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pesade \Pe*sade"\, n. [F.] (Man.) The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Physograde \Phys"o*grade\, n. [Gr. [?] a bellows + L. gradi to walk, go.] (Zo[94]l.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pinnigrade \Pin"ni*grade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pistolade \Pis"to*lade`\, n. [F.] A pistol shot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Plantigrade \Plan"ti*grade\, a. [L. planta sole of the foot + gradi to walk: cf. F. plantigrade.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. (b) Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Plantigrade \Plan"ti*grade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pomade \Po*made"\ (?; 277), n. [F. pommade pomatum, OF. pomade cider (cf. Sp. pomada, It. pomata, LL. pomata a drink made of apples), from L. pomum fruit, LL., an apple. Cf. {Pomatum}.] 1. Cider. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 2. Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Promenade \Prom`e*nade"\, n. [F. (with a foreign suffix), from promener to lead, take for a walk, se promener to walk, from L. prominare to drive forward or along; pro forward + minare to drive animals. See {Amenable}, {Menace}.] 1. A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. --Burke. 2. A place for walking; a public walk. --Bp. Montagu. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Promenade \Prom`e*nade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Promenaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Promenading}.] To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulmograde \Pul"mo*grade\, a. [L. pulmo a lung + gradi to walk.] (Zo[94]l.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medus[91]. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quad \Quad\, Quade \Quade\, a. [Akin to AS. cw[aemac]d, cwead, dung, evil, G. kot, dung, OHG. qu[be]t.] Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rade \Rade\, n. A raid. [Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ready-made \Read"y-made`\, a. Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Reformade \Ref`or*made"\ (r?f`?r*m?d"), n. A reformado. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Regrade \Re*grade"\ (r?*gr?d"), v. i. [L. re- re- + gradi to go. Cf. {Regrede}. ] To retire; to go back. [Obs.] --W. Hales. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Relade \Re*lade"\ (r[emac]*l[amac]d"), v. t. To lade or load again. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Remade \Re*made"\ (r?-m?d"), imp. & p. p. of {Remake}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Renegade \Ren"e*gade\ (r?n"?-g?d), n. [Sp. renegado, LL. renegatus, fr. renegare to deny; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See {Negation}, and cf. {Runagate}.] One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: (a) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. --Macaulay. (b) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter. --Arbuthnot. (c) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Retirade \Ret`i*rade"\, n. [F.; cf. Sp. retirada retreat. See {Retire}.] (Fort.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a re[89]ntering angle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Retrograde \Re"tro*grade\, a. [L. retrogradus, from retrogradi, retrogressus, to retrograde; retro back + gradi to step: cf. F. r[82]trograde. See {Grade}.] 1. (Astron.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. --Hutton. And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde. --Chaucer. 2. Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to {progressive}. [bd]Progressive and not retrograde.[b8] --Bacon. It is most retrograde to our desire. --Shak. 3. Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Retrograde \Re"tro*grade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Retrograded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retrograding}.] [L. retrogradare, retrogradi: cf. F. r[82]trograder.] 1. To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet. 2. Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rhodomontade \Rhod`o*mon*tade"\, n. See {Rodomontade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See {Rodomont}, n.] Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, v. i. To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Royal spade \Royal spade\ (Auction Bridge) A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Saccade \Sac*cade"\, n. [F.] (Man.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Salade \Sal"ade\, n. A helmet. See {Sallet}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sallet \Sal"let\ (s[acr]l"l[ecr]t), n. [F. salade, Sp. celada, or It. celata, fr. L. (cassis) caelata, fr. caelare, caelatum, to engrave in relief. So called from the figures engraved upon it.] A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century. [Written also {salade}.] Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved. --Latimer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Salade \Sal"ade\, n. A helmet. See {Sallet}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sallet \Sal"let\ (s[acr]l"l[ecr]t), n. [F. salade, Sp. celada, or It. celata, fr. L. (cassis) caelata, fr. caelare, caelatum, to engrave in relief. So called from the figures engraved upon it.] A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century. [Written also {salade}.] Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved. --Latimer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Saltigrade \Sal"ti*grade\, a. [L. saltus a leap + gradi to walk, go: cf. F. saltigrade.] (Zo[94]l.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Saltigrade \Sal"ti*grade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the {Saltigrad[91]}, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scalade \Sca*lade"\, Scalado \Sca*la"do\, n. (Mil.) See {Escalade}. --Fairfax. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Schade \Schade\, n. Shade; shadow. [Obs.] Note: English words now beginning with sh, like shade, were formerly often spelled with a c between the s and h; as, schade; schame; schape; schort, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Self-made \Self"-made`\, a. Made by one's self. {Self-made man}, a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talentss or energies. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Serenade \Ser`*enade"\, n. [F. s[82]r[82]nade, It. serenata, probably fr. L. serenus serene (cf. {Serene}), misunderstood as a derivative fr. L. serus late. Cf. {Soir[82]e}.] (Mus.) (a) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies. (b) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Serenade \Ser`e*nade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Serenaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Serenading}.] To entertain with a serenade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Serenade \Ser`e*nade"\, v. i. To perform a serenade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Shade \Shade\ (sh[amac]d), n. [OE. shade, shadewe, schadewe, AS. sceadu, scead; akin to OS. skado, D. schaduw, OHG. scato, (gen. scatewes), G. schatten, Goth. skadus, Ir. & Gael. sgath, and probably to Gr. sko`tos darkness. [root]162. Cf. {Shadow}, {Shed} a hat.] 1. Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. Note: Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular form or definite limit; whereas a shadow represents in form the object which intercepts the light. When we speak of the shade of a tree, we have no reference to its form; but when we speak of measuring a pyramid or other object by its shadow, we have reference to its form and extent. 2. Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. The shades of night were falling fast. --Longfellow. 3. An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty. --Shak. 4. That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. --Ps. cxxi. 5. Sleep under a fresh tree's shade. --Shak. Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables. --J. Philips. 5. Shadow. [Poetic.] Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue. --Pope. 6. The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. Swift as thought the flitting shade Thro' air his momentary journey made. --Dryden. 7. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. 8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the eyes. --Locke. 9. A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. New shades and combinations of thought. --De Quincey. Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters. --Macaulay. {The Shades}, the Nether World; the supposed abode of souls after leaving the body. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shading}.] 1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. --Milton. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. --Dryden. 2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. Ere in our own house I do shade my head. --Shak. 3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of. Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. --Milton. 4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken. 5. To mark with gradations of light or color. 6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [Obs.] [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Shade \Shade\, v. i. [See {Shade}, n.] To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades. --Edmund Gurney. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Shear \Shear\, n. [AS. sceara. See {Shear}, v. t.] 1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See {Shears}. On his head came razor none, nor shear. --Chaucer. Short of the wool, and naked from the shear. --Dryden. 2. A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep. After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing. --Youatt. 3. (Engin.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called {shearing stress}, and {tangential stress}. 4. (Mech.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. {Shear blade}, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine. {Shear hulk}. See under {Hulk}. {Shear steel}, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Shoulder \Shoul"der\, n. [OE. shulder, shuldre, schutder, AS. sculdor; akin to D. schoulder, G. schulter, OHG. scultarra, Dan. skulder, Sw. skuldra.] 1. (Anat.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore The gates of Azza. --Milton. Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair. --Dryden. 3. Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support. In thy shoulder do I build my seat. --Shak. 4. That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. The north western shoulder of the mountain. --Sir W. Scott. 5. The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton. 6. (Fort.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of {Bastion}. 7. An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc. {Shoulder belt}, a belt that passes across the shoulder. {Shoulder blade} (Anat.), the flat bone of the shoulder, to which the humerus is articulated; the scapula. {Shoulder block} (Naut.), a block with a projection, or shoulder, near the upper end, so that it can rest against a spar without jamming the rope. {Shoulder clapper}, one who claps another on the shoulder, or who uses great familiarity. [Obs.] --Shak. {Shoulder girdle}. (Anat.) See {Pectoral girdle}, under {Pectoral}. {Shoulder knot}, an ornamental knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder; a kind of epaulet or braided ornament worn as part of a military uniform. {Shoulder-of-mutton sail} (Naut.), a triangular sail carried on a boat's mast; -- so called from its shape. {Shoulder slip}, dislocation of the shoulder, or of the humerous. --Swift. {Shoulder strap}, a strap worn on or over the shoulder. Specifically (Mil. & Naval), a narrow strap worn on the shoulder of a commissioned officer, indicating, by a suitable device, the rank he holds in the service. See Illust. in App. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Slade \Slade\, n. [AS. sl[?]d.] 1. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. The sole of a plow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sole \Sole\, n. [AS. sole, fr. L. soolea (or rather an assumed L. sola), akin to solumround, soil, sole of the foot. Cf. {Exile}, {Saloon}, {Soil} earth, {Sole} the fish.] 1. The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself. The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. --Gen. viii. 9. Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. --Spenser. 2. The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom. The [bd]caliga[b8] was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep. --Arbuthnot. 3. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing. Specifially: (a) (Agric.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also {slade}; also, the bottom of a furrow. (b) (Far.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts. (c) (Fort.) The bottom of an embrasure. (d) (Naut.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel. --Totten. (e) (Mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes. {Sole leather}, thick, strong, used for making the soles of boots and shoes, and for other purposes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Slade \Slade\, n. [AS. sl[?]d.] 1. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. The sole of a plow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sole \Sole\, n. [AS. sole, fr. L. soolea (or rather an assumed L. sola), akin to solumround, soil, sole of the foot. Cf. {Exile}, {Saloon}, {Soil} earth, {Sole} the fish.] 1. The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself. The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. --Gen. viii. 9. Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. --Spenser. 2. The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom. The [bd]caliga[b8] was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep. --Arbuthnot. 3. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing. Specifially: (a) (Agric.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also {slade}; also, the bottom of a furrow. (b) (Far.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts. (c) (Fort.) The bottom of an embrasure. (d) (Naut.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel. --Totten. (e) (Mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes. {Sole leather}, thick, strong, used for making the soles of boots and shoes, and for other purposes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Slave \Slave\, n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See {Slav}.] 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge? --Milton. 2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. 3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. 4. An abject person; a wretch. --Shak. {Slave ant} (Zo[94]l.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially {Formica fusca} of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by {Formica sanguinea}. {Slave catcher}, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. {Slave coast}, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. {Slave driver}, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. {Slave hunt}. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. --Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. {Slave ship}, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. {Slave trade}, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. {Slave trader}, one who traffics in slaves. Syn: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See {Serf}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spade \Spade\, n. [AS. sp[91]d; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spa[edh]i, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf. {Epaulet}, {Spade} at cards, {Spathe}, {Spatula}.] 1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. [bd]With spade and pickax armed.[b8] --Milton. 2. [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. [bd]Let spades be trumps![b8] she said. --Pope. 3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale. {Spade bayonet}, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also {trowel bayonet}. {Spade handle} (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of {Knuckle joint}, under {Knuckle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also {spaid}, {spayade}.] 2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spade \Spade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spading}.] To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spayad \Spay"ad\, Spayade \Spay"ade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A spay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also {spaid}, {spayade}.] 2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spayad \Spay"ad\, Spayade \Spay"ade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A spay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also {spaid}, {spayade}.] 2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stade \Stade\, n. [Cf. F. stade.] A stadium. --Donne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stade \Stade\, n. [Cf. G. gestade shore.] A landing place or wharf. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Henbane \Hen"bane`\, n. [Hen + bane.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Hyoscyamus} ({H. niger}). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, {stinking nightshade}, from the fetid odor of the plant. See {Hyoscyamus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Henbane \Hen"bane`\, n. [Hen + bane.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Hyoscyamus} ({H. niger}). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, {stinking nightshade}, from the fetid odor of the plant. See {Hyoscyamus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stoccade \Stoc*cade"\, n. & v. See {Stockade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stockade \Stock*ade"\, n. [F. estacade stockade, boom (confused in French with estocade; see 1st {Stoccado}); fr. It. steccata a palisade (influenced by OF. estach, estaque, a stake, post), or from Sp. estacada a palisade; both of German origin, and akin to E. stake, stick; cf. G. stecken stick, OHG. steccho. See {Stake}, n., {Stick}, n. & v. t., and cf. {Estacade}, {Stacket}.] 1. (Mil.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also {stoccade}.] 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stoccade \Stoc*cade"\, n. & v. See {Stockade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stockade \Stock*ade"\, n. [F. estacade stockade, boom (confused in French with estocade; see 1st {Stoccado}); fr. It. steccata a palisade (influenced by OF. estach, estaque, a stake, post), or from Sp. estacada a palisade; both of German origin, and akin to E. stake, stick; cf. G. stecken stick, OHG. steccho. See {Stake}, n., {Stick}, n. & v. t., and cf. {Estacade}, {Stacket}.] 1. (Mil.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also {stoccade}.] 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Stock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the mallard. {Stock exchange}. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks. (b) An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. --Wharton. Brande & C. {Stock farmer}, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock. {Stock gillyflower} (Bot.), the common stock. See {Stock}, n., 18. {Stock gold}, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. {Stock in trade}, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. --Simmonds. {Stock list}, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. {Stock lock}, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door. {Stock market}. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for live stock. {Stock pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stockdove}. {Stock purse}. (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.] {Stock shave}, a tool used by blockmakers. {Stock station}, a place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] --W. Howitt. {Stock tackle} (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. --Totten. {Stock taking}, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically. {Tail stock}. See {Tailstock}. {To have something on the stock}, to be at work at something. {To take stock}, to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. --Dickens. {To take stock in}. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity. [Slang] {To take stock of}, to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). [Eng.] At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. --Leslie Stephen. Syn: Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stockade \Stock*ade"\, n. [F. estacade stockade, boom (confused in French with estocade; see 1st {Stoccado}); fr. It. steccata a palisade (influenced by OF. estach, estaque, a stake, post), or from Sp. estacada a palisade; both of German origin, and akin to E. stake, stick; cf. G. stecken stick, OHG. steccho. See {Stake}, n., {Stick}, n. & v. t., and cf. {Estacade}, {Stacket}.] 1. (Mil.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also {stoccade}.] 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Stockade \Stock*ade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stockaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stockading}.] To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Su8ade \Su[8a]de\ (sw[asl]d or sw[acir]d), n. [F., Sweden.] Swedish glove leather, -- usually made from lambskins tanned with willow bark. Also used adjectively; as, su[8a]de gloves. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Suade \Suade\, v. t. [L. suadere.] To persuade. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Succade \Suc"cade\, n. [L. succus, sucus, juice: cf. F. succade a sugarbox. Cf. {Sucket}.] 1. A sweetmeat. [Obs.] --Holland. 2. pl. (Com.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. --Blakely. {Succade gourd}. (Bot.) Same as {Vegetable marrow}, under {Vegetable}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sunshade \Sun"shade`\, n. Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays. Specifically: (a) A small parasol. (b) An awning. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sword \Sword\, n. [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver[?], Sw. sv[84]rd, Dan. sv[91]rd; of uncertain origin.] 1. An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp[?]pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties. 2. Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power. He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain. --Rom. xiii. 4. She quits the balance, and resigns the sword. --Dryden. 3. Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension. I came not to send peace, but a sword. --Matt. x. 34. 4. The military power of a country. He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law. --Milton. 5. (Weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. {Sword arm}, the right arm. {Sword bayonet}, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. {Sword bearer}, one who carries his master's sword; an officer in London who carries a sword before the lord mayor when he goes abroad. {Sword belt}, a belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side. {Sword blade}, the blade, or cutting part, of a sword. {Sword cane}, a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. {Sword dance}. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers. --Sir W. Scott. (b) A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them. {Sword fight}, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay. {Sword grass}. (Bot.) See {Gladen}. {Sword knot}, a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword. {Sword law}, government by the sword, or by force; violence. --Milton. {Sword lily}. (Bot.) See {Gladiolus}. {Sword mat} (Naut.), a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture. {Sword shrimp} (Zo[94]l.), a European shrimp ({Pasiph[91]a sivado}) having a very thin, compressed body. {Sword stick}, a sword cane. {To measure swords with one}. See under {Measure}, v. t. {To put to the sword}. See under {Put}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tailor-made \Tai"lor-made`\, a. Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tardigrade \Tar"di*grade\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Tardigrada. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tardigrade \Tar"di*grade\, a. [L. tardigradus; tardus slow + gradi to step: cf. F. tardigrade.] 1. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. [R.] --G. Eliot. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tead \Tead\, Teade \Teade\, n. [L. taeda, teda.] A torch. [Obs.] [bd]A burning teade.[b8] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nightshade \Night"shade`\, n. [AS. nichtscadu.] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus {Solanum}, given esp. to the {Solanum nigrum}, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. {Deadly nightshade}. Same as {Belladonna} (a) . {Enchanter's nightshade}. See under {Enchanter}. {Stinking nightshade}. See {Henbane}. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Three-leafed \Three"-leafed`\, Three-leaved \Three"-leaved`\, a. (Bot.) (a) Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade. (b) Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. {Three-leaved nightshade}. See {Trillium}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise in also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. 5. (Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. --Burrill. {To raise a blockade} (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. {To raise a check}, {note}, {bill of exchange}, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blockade \Block*ade"\, n. [Cf. It. bloccata. See {Block}, v. t. ] 1. The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy. Note: Blockade is now usually applied to an investment with ships or vessels, while siege is used of an investment by land forces. To constitute a blockade, the investing power must be able to apply its force to every point of practicable access, so as to render it dangerous to attempt to enter; and there is no blockade of that port where its force can not be brought to bear. --Kent. 2. An obstruction to passage. {To raise a blockade}. See under {Raise}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. --Clarendon. 12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water. At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great C[91]sar fell. --Shak. 13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood. 14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.] 15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.] 16. To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time. 17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn. {To run a blockade}, to get to, or away from, a blockaded port in safety. {To run down}. (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down a stag. (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel. (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. [bd]Religion is run down by the license of these times.[b8] --Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. --F. W. Newman. {To run hard}. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely. {To run into the ground}, to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo. [Slang, U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Torsade \Tor*sade"\, n. [F.] A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form. The crown decked with torsades of pearls. --Harper's Mag. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trade \Trade\, n. [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See {Tread}, n. & v.] 1. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. --Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. --Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. --Shak. 2. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] [bd]The right trade of religion.[b8] --Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. --Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. --Massinger. Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. --Shak. 3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us? --Shak. 4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. Note: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water. 5. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Accursed usury was all his trade. --Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. --Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. --Shak. 6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. --Dryden. 7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade. 8. pl. The trade winds. 9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.] Syn: Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. {Board of trade}. See under {Board}. {Trade dollar}. See under {Dollar}. {Trade price}, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. {Trade sale}, an auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers. {Trade wind}, a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade. Note: The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trade \Trade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Traded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trading}.] 1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. --Arbuthnot. 2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance. 3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with. How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth? --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trade \Trade\, v. t. To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. They traded the persons of men. --Ezek. xxvii. 13. To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. --Cooper. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trade \Trade\, obs. imp. of {Tread}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Transit \Trans"it\, n. [L. transitus, from transire to go over: cf. F. transit. See {Transient}.] 1. The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. --Burke. 2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country. 3. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit. --E. G. Squier. 4. (Astron.) (a) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope. (b) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary. 5. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also {transit compass}, and {surveyor's transit}. Note: The surveyor's transit differs from the theodolite in having the horizontal axis attached directly to the telescope which is not mounted in Y's and can be turned completely over about the axis. {Lower transit} (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is below the polar axis. {Surveyor's transit}. See {Transit}, 5, above. {Transit circle} (Astron.), a transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing the time of transit and the declination at one observation. See {Circle}, n., 3. {Transit compass}. See {Transit}, 5, above. {Transit duty}, a duty paid on goods that pass through a country. {Transit instrument}. (Astron.) (a) A telescope mounted at right angles to a horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation in the plane of the meridian, -- used in connection with a clock for observing the time of transit of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place. (b) (Surv.) A surveyor's transit. See {Transit}, 5, above. {Transit trade} (Com.), the business conected with the passage of goods through a country to their destination. {Upper transit} (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is above the polar axis. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Turf \Turf\ (t[ucir]rf), n.; pl. {Turfs}, Obs. {Turves}. [AS. turf; akin to D. turf peat, G. torf, OHG. zurba turf, Sw. & Icel. torf turf, peat, Dan. t[94]rv, Skr. darbha a kind of grass, a tuft of grass. [root]242.] 1. That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. At his head a grass-green turf. --Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. --Milton. 2. Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See {Peat}. 3. Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the. [bd]We . . . claim the honors of the turf.[b8] --Cowper. Note: Turf is often used adjectively, or to form compounds which are generally self-explaining; as, turf ashes, turf cutter or turf-cutter, turf pit or turf-pit, turf-built, turf-clad, turf-covered, etc. {Turf ant} (Zo[94]l.), a small European ant ({Formica flava}) which makes small ant-hills on heaths and commons. {Turf drain}, a drain made with turf or peat. {Turf hedge}, a hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds. {Turf house}, a house or shed formed of turf, common in the northern parts of Europe. {Turf moss} a tract of turfy, mossy, or boggy land. {Turf spade}, a spade for cutting and digging turf, longer and narrower than the common spade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Turfing \Turf"ing\, n. The act or process of providing or covering with turf. {Turfing iron}, [or] {Turfing spade}, an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twayblade \Tway"blade`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of {Listera} and of {Liparis}. [Written also {twyblade}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twyblade \Twy"blade`\, n. See {Twayblade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twayblade \Tway"blade`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of {Listera} and of {Liparis}. [Written also {twyblade}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twyblade \Twy"blade`\, n. See {Twayblade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twayblade \Tway"blade`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of {Listera} and of {Liparis}. [Written also {twyblade}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Unbarricade \Un*bar`ri*cade"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + barricade.] To unbolt; to unbar; to open. You shall not unbarricade the door. --J. Webster (1623). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parade \Pa*rade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See {Pare}, v. t.] 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. 2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift. 4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. In state returned the grand parade. --Swift. 5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. --Locke. 6. A public walk; a promenade. {Dress parade}, {Undress parade}. See under {Dress}, and {Undress}. {Parade rest}, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. --Wilhelm. Syn: Ostentation; display; show. Usage: {Parade}, {Ostentation}. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. [bd]It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.[b8] --Robertson. [bd]We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.[b8] --Spectator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Undress \Un"dress\, n. 1. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress. 2. (Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform. {Undress parade} (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Unguligrade \Un"gu*li*grade\, a. [L. ungula hoof + gradi to walk.] (Zo[94]l.) Having, or walking on, hoofs. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Unlade \Un*lade"\ v. t. [1st un- + lade.] 1. To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. --Dryden. 2. To unload; to remove, or to have removed, as a load or a burden; to discharge. There the ship was to unlade her burden. --Acts. xxi. 3. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Unmade \Un*made"\, a. 1. [Pref. un- not + made.] Not yet made or formed; as, an unmade grave. --Shak. 2. [Properly p. p. of unmake.] Deprived of form, character, etc.; disunited. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Grade \Grade\, n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. {Congress}, {Degree}, {Gradus}.] 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. {At grade}, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. {Down grade}, a descent, as on a graded railroad. {Up grade}, an ascent, as on a graded railroad. {Equating for grades}. See under {Equate}. {Grade crossing}, a crossing at grade. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vade \Vade\, v. i. [For fade.] To fade; hence, to vanish. [Obs.] [bd] Summer leaves all vaded.[b8] --Shak. They into dust shall vade. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded [?]he rivers and swamps. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, n. The act of wading. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, n. Woad. [Obs.] --Mortimer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wading}.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va[?]a, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. {Evade}, {Invade}, {Pervade}, {Waddle}.] 1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. --Chaucer. Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. --Old Play. 2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. --Milton. 3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed [?]lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly [?]inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. --Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. --Davenant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[be]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also {wad}, and {wade}.] 1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({Isatis tinctoria}). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. 2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. --Milton. {Wild woad} (Bot.), the weld ({Reseda luteola}). See {Weld}. {Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded [?]he rivers and swamps. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, n. The act of wading. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, n. Woad. [Obs.] --Mortimer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wade \Wade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wading}.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va[?]a, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. {Evade}, {Invade}, {Pervade}, {Waddle}.] 1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. --Chaucer. Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. --Old Play. 2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. --Milton. 3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed [?]lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly [?]inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. --Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. --Davenant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[be]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also {wad}, and {wade}.] 1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({Isatis tinctoria}). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. 2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. --Milton. {Wild woad} (Bot.), the weld ({Reseda luteola}). See {Weld}. {Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Window frame}, the frame of a window which receives and holds the sashes or casement. {Window glass}, panes of glass for windows; the kind of glass used in windows. {Window martin} (Zo[94]l.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] {Window oyster} (Zo[94]l.), a marine bivalve shell ({Placuna placenta}) native of the East Indies and China. Its valves are very broad, thin, and translucent, and are said to have been used formerly in place of glass. {Window pane}. (a) (Arch.) See {Pane}, n., 3 (b) . (b) (Zo[94]l.) See {Windowpane}, in the Vocabulary. {Window sash}, the sash, or light frame, in which panes of glass are set for windows. {Window seat}, a seat arranged in the recess of a window. See {Window stool}, under {Stool}. {Window shade}, a shade or blind for a window; usually, one that is hung on a roller. {Window shell} (Zo[94]l.), the window oyster. {Window shutter}, a shutter or blind used to close or darken windows. {Window sill} (Arch.), the flat piece of wood, stone, or the like, at the bottom of a window frame. {Window swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] {Window tax}, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. [Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.] 1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. --Shak. 2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. [bd]To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8] --Milton. 3. (Bot.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}. {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa}) of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust. of {Anemone}. {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests. {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}. {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill. {Wood betony}. (Bot.) (a) Same as {Betony}. (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or purplish flowers. {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer}, under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}. (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga. (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura terebrans}). {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. --Knight. {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the principal constituent of woody fiber. {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. [Poetic] --Coleridge. {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal. {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket ({Nemobius sylvestris}). {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon. {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an engraving. {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove. {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods. {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}. (b) The hooded merganser. (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}). {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood. {Wood engraver}. (a) An engraver on wood. (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and excavate furrows in the wood often more or less resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus xylographus}. {Wood engraving}. (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}. {Wood fiber}. (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue. (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass. {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the bark, of trees. {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of the head. {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}. {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity. {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}. {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}. {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.] {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and allied species. (b) The American woodcock. {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a longer tail. {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large, long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus loculator}) is common in Florida. {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on trees. {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne Laureola}). {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley. {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill bug}, under {Pill}. (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]}, which live in the crevices of walls and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}. {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and stones. {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The court of attachment. {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}. {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade. {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert. {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton. (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species, as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves of the grapevine. (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh. x. 34. {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See {Gurjun}. {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood. {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp}, below. {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but is smaller. {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the European great spotted woodpecker. {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the family {Columbid[91]}. (b) The ringdove. {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse. {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale. {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers. {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail. {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species. {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea}) growing in moist woods. {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.] {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula}, differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus} chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule. {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}. {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood. {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser. {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2. {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old World singing birds belonging to {Grallina}, {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes, but feed upon both insects and berries. {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}). {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood. {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}. {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of {Shamrock}. {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}. {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics. {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to the genus {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue, purple, and other colors. {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle. {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white beneath. {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker. {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}. {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}. (b) The missel thrush. {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary. {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}. {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest. {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See under {Sculptured}. {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony. {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above. {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}. (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); -- called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow wren}. {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer. {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woody \Wood"y\, a. 1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. [bd]The woody wilderness.[b8] --Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton. 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants. 3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] [bd]Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades.[b8] --Spenser. {Woody fiber}. (Bot.) (a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end. (b) A single wood cell. See under {Wood}. --Goodale. {Woody nightshade}. (Bot.). See {Bittersweet}, 3 (a) . {Woody pear} (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus {Xylomelum}; -- called also {wooden pear}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Arcade, GA (city, FIPS 2648) Location: 34.07687 N, 83.56098 W Population (1990): 697 (266 housing units) Area: 8.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Arcade, NY (village, FIPS 2407) Location: 42.53343 N, 78.43316 W Population (1990): 2081 (817 housing units) Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14009 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Arden-Arcade, CA (CDP, FIPS 2553) Location: 38.60110 N, 121.37669 W Population (1990): 92040 (44235 housing units) Area: 48.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Barbourmeade, KY (city, FIPS 3556) Location: 38.30015 N, 85.59973 W Population (1990): 1402 (509 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Belgrade, ME Zip code(s): 04917 Belgrade, MN (city, FIPS 4762) Location: 45.44997 N, 94.99903 W Population (1990): 700 (322 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56312 Belgrade, MO Zip code(s): 63622 Belgrade, MT (city, FIPS 4975) Location: 45.77786 N, 111.17739 W Population (1990): 3411 (1290 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59714 Belgrade, NE (village, FIPS 3810) Location: 41.47132 N, 98.06707 W Population (1990): 157 (91 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68623 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Belle Glade, FL (city, FIPS 5200) Location: 26.68553 N, 80.67151 W Population (1990): 16177 (6045 housing units) Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33430 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Belle Meade, TN (city, FIPS 4620) Location: 36.09885 N, 86.85503 W Population (1990): 2839 (1149 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bellemeade, KY (city, FIPS 5392) Location: 38.24940 N, 85.59108 W Population (1990): 927 (434 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bright Shade, KY Zip code(s): 40962 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Brinsmade, ND (city, FIPS 9460) Location: 48.18331 N, 99.32442 W Population (1990): 21 (17 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58320 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cascade, IA (city, FIPS 11305) Location: 42.29906 N, 91.00985 W Population (1990): 1812 (696 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52033 Cascade, ID (city, FIPS 13150) Location: 44.51302 N, 116.04066 W Population (1990): 877 (478 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water) Cascade, MT (town, FIPS 12775) Location: 47.27070 N, 111.70247 W Population (1990): 729 (333 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59421 Cascade, VA Zip code(s): 24069 Cascade, WI (village, FIPS 12825) Location: 43.65942 N, 88.00851 W Population (1990): 620 (220 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53011 Cascade, WV Zip code(s): 26542 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Evening Shade, AR (town, FIPS 22360) Location: 36.07044 N, 91.62127 W Population (1990): 328 (158 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72532 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairfield Glade, TN (CDP, FIPS 24980) Location: 36.00012 N, 84.89940 W Population (1990): 2209 (1566 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38555 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairmeade, KY (city, FIPS 26074) Location: 38.24940 N, 85.63530 W Population (1990): 280 (116 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fort Meade, FL (city, FIPS 24100) Location: 27.75229 N, 81.79561 W Population (1990): 4976 (2114 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33841 Fort Meade, MD (CDP, FIPS 29400) Location: 39.10810 N, 76.74197 W Population (1990): 12509 (3030 housing units) Area: 17.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Fort Meade, SD Zip code(s): 57741 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gasconade, MO (city, FIPS 26578) Location: 38.66936 N, 91.56029 W Population (1990): 253 (160 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gibbon Glade, PA Zip code(s): 15440 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Glade, KS (city, FIPS 26325) Location: 39.68257 N, 99.31059 W Population (1990): 101 (48 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67639 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Maple Shade, NJ (CDP, FIPS 43770) Location: 39.95125 N, 74.99570 W Population (1990): 19211 (9073 housing units) Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 08052 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mc Dade, TX Zip code(s): 78650 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Meade, KS (city, FIPS 45325) Location: 37.28502 N, 100.33757 W Population (1990): 1526 (778 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67864 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Meadow Glade, WA (CDP, FIPS 44620) Location: 45.75458 N, 122.55401 W Population (1990): 1584 (501 housing units) Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pacific Palisade, CA Zip code(s): 90272 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Palisade, CO (town, FIPS 56970) Location: 39.10745 N, 108.35778 W Population (1990): 1871 (847 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 81526 Palisade, MN (city, FIPS 49498) Location: 46.71313 N, 93.49072 W Population (1990): 144 (77 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56469 Palisade, NE (village, FIPS 38120) Location: 40.34841 N, 101.10669 W Population (1990): 381 (191 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69040 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parade, SD Zip code(s): 57647 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pleasant Shade, TN Zip code(s): 37145 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Shade, OH Zip code(s): 45776 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Slade, KY Zip code(s): 40376 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Summer Shade, KY Zip code(s): 42166 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Trade, TN Zip code(s): 37691 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Upperglade, WV Zip code(s): 26266 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wade, NC (town, FIPS 70340) Location: 35.16428 N, 78.73535 W Population (1990): 238 (110 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28395 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Walnut Shade, MO Zip code(s): 65771 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Willow Shade, KY Zip code(s): 42169 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
cascade n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Arcade has links with {Demon Internet}. Telephone: +44 (181) 654 2212 (24hrs, most speeds). (1994-11-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cascade 1. by a {compiler} with poor {error recovery}. Too frequently, one trivial {syntax} error (such as a missing ")" or "}") throws the {parser} out of synch so that much of the remaining program text, whether correct or not, is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito. 3. devices, typically {hub}s, that allows those devices to act together as a {logical} {repeater}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-07-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
JADE {James' DSSSL Engine} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Jade 1. U Washington, late 80's. A strongly-typed language, object-oriented but without classes. For type research. The compiler output is Smalltalk. [Submitter claimed that Jade has exactly one user!] 2. Implicit coarse-grained concurrency. The constructs 'with', 'withonly' and 'without' create tasks with specified side effects to shared data objects. Implemented as a C preprocessor. "Coarse-Grain Parallel Programming in Jade", M.S. Lam et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(7):94-105 (Jul 1991). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
JADE {James' DSSSL Engine} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Jade 1. U Washington, late 80's. A strongly-typed language, object-oriented but without classes. For type research. The compiler output is Smalltalk. [Submitter claimed that Jade has exactly one user!] 2. Implicit coarse-grained concurrency. The constructs 'with', 'withonly' and 'without' create tasks with specified side effects to shared data objects. Implemented as a C preprocessor. "Coarse-Grain Parallel Programming in Jade", M.S. Lam et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(7):94-105 (Jul 1991). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PARADE PARallel Applicative Database Engine. A project at Glasgow University to construct a transaction-processor in the parallel {functional programming} language {Haskell} to run on an {ICL} {EDS+} database machine. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPADE Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction. Specification language. G.S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div, FLAG/UD/3DR.003 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
upgrade 1. A new or better version of some {hardware} or {software}. Often used in {marketroid}-speak to mean "{bug fix}". 2. The act of developing or installing a new version. (1995-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
YADE {Yet Another DSSSL Engine} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Blade applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword (Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the "shoulder blade" (Job 31:22); the "blade" of cereals (Matt. 13:26). |