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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tapis \Ta"pis\, n. [F. See {Tapestry}.] Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table. {On}, [or] {Upon}, {the tapis}, on the table, or under consideration; as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the tapis. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Advise \Ad*vise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Advised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Advising}.] [OE. avisen to perceive, consider, inform, F. aviser, fr. LL. advisare. advisare; ad + visare, fr. L. videre, visum, to see. See {Advice}, and cf. {Avise}.] 1. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. [bd]I shall no more advise thee.[b8] --Milton. 2. To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. {To advise one's self}, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. --Shak. Syn: To counsel; admonish; apprise; acquaint. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d[?]pan to baptize, OS. d[?]pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d[94]pa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl[?] hollow, and to E. dive. Cf. {Deep}, {Dive}.] 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev. iv. 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. --Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson. 2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. 3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic] A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton. 4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. --Dryden. 5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water. 6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.] Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden. {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Backbone \Back"bone"\, n. [2d back,n.+ bone. ] 1. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column. 2. Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone. The lofty mountains on the north side compose the granitic axis, or backbone of the country. --Darwin. We have now come to the backbone of our subject. --Earle. 3. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness. Shelley's thought never had any backbone. --Shairp. {To the backbone}, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. [bd]Staunch to the backbone.[b8] --Lord Lytton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
To \To\ ([?], emphatic or alone, [?], obscure or unemphatic), prep. [AS. t[d3]; akin to OS. & OFries. t[d3], D. toe, G. zu, OHG. zuo, zua, z[d3], Russ. do, Ir. & Gael. do, OL. -do, -du, as in endo, indu, in, Gr. [?], as in [?] homeward. [fb]200. Cf. {Too}, {Tatoo} a beat of drums.] 1. The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to {from}. [bd]To Canterbury they wend.[b8] --Chaucer. Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. --Shak. So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's arbor smiled. --Milton. I'll to him again, . . . He'll tell me all his purpose. She stretched her arms to heaven. --Dryden. 2. Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor. Note: Formerly, by omission of the verb denoting motion, to sometimes followed a form of be, with the sense of at, or in. [bd]When the sun was [gone or declined] to rest.[b8] --Chaucer. 3. In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor. Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter. --B. Jonson. Whilst they, distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. --Shak. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. --2 Pet. i. 5,6,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. --Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. --Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. --Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. --Dryden. 4. As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (--Matt. xi. 8). Then longen folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeken strange stranders. --Chaucer. Note: Such usage is now obsolete or illiterate. In colloquial usage, to often stands for, and supplies, an infinitive already mentioned; thus, he commands me to go with him, but I do not wish to. 5. In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically. Thus, it denotes or implies: (a) Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred. We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man. --Shak. Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten. --Quant. Rev. (b) Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state. (c) Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand. Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. --1 Cor. xiii. 12. (d) Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind. He to God's image, she to his was made. --Dryden. (e) Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him. All that they did was piety to this. --B. Jonson. (f) Addition; union; accumulation. Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage. --Denham. (g) Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. --Milton. (h) Character; condition of being; purpose subserved or office filled. [In this sense archaic] [bd]I have a king here to my flatterer.[b8] --Shak. Made his masters and others . . . to consider him to a little wonder. --Walton. Note: To in to-day, to-night, and to-morrow has the sense or force of for or on; for, or on, (this) day, for, or on, (this) night, for, or on, (the) morrow. To-day, to-night, to-morrow may be considered as compounds, and usually as adverbs; but they are sometimes used as nouns; as, to-day is ours. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow; Creeps in this petty pace from day to day. --Shak. {To and again}, to and fro. [R.] {To and fro}, forward and back. In this phrase, to is adverbial. There was great showing both to and fro. --Chaucer. {To-and-fro}, a pacing backward and forward; as, to commence a to-and-fro. --Tennyson. {To the face}, in front of; in behind; hence, in the presence of. {To wit}, to know; namely. See {Wit}, v. i. Note: To, without an object expressed, is used adverbially; as, put to the door, i. e., put the door to its frame, close it; and in the nautical expressions, to heave to, to come to, meaning to a certain position. To, like on, is sometimes used as a command, forward, set to. [bd]To, Achilles! to, Ajax! to![b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Toadfish \Toad"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any marine fish of the genus {Batrachus}, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species ({Batrachus tau}) is very common in shallow water. Called also {oyster fish}, and {sapo}. (b) The angler. (c) A swellfish. | |
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Angler \An"gler\, n. 1. One who angles. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A fish ({Lophius piscatorius}), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also {fishing frog}, {frogfish}, {toadfish}, {goosefish}, {allmouth}, {monkfish}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Toadfish \Toad"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any marine fish of the genus {Batrachus}, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species ({Batrachus tau}) is very common in shallow water. Called also {oyster fish}, and {sapo}. (b) The angler. (c) A swellfish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Angler \An"gler\, n. 1. One who angles. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A fish ({Lophius piscatorius}), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also {fishing frog}, {frogfish}, {toadfish}, {goosefish}, {allmouth}, {monkfish}, etc. | |
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Toothback \Tooth"back`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any notodontian. | |
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Toothpick \Tooth"pick`\, n. A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them. | |
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Toothpicker \Tooth"pick`er\, n. A toothpick. [Obs.] --Shak. |