English Dictionary: tubbiness | by the DICT Development Group |
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Tabby \Tab"by\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabbied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabbying}.] To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc. | |
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Taboo \Ta*boo"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabooing}.] To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. [Written also {tabu}.] | |
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Taiping \Tai"ping"\, [or] Taeping \Tae"ping"\, a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the {Taiping rebellion}, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864. | |
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Taiping \Tai"ping"\, [or] Taeping \Tae"ping"\, a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the {Taiping rebellion}, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864. | |
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Taiping \Tai"ping"\, [or] Taeping \Tae"ping"\, a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the {Taiping rebellion}, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864. | |
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Tapinage \Tap"i*nage\, n. [See {Tapish}.] A lurking or skulking. [Obs.] --Gower. | |
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Tape \Tape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Taped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Taping}.] To furnish with tape; to fasten, tie, bind, or the like, with tape; specif. (Elec.), to cover (a wire) with insulating tape. | |
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Tap \Tap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tapping}.] [F. taper to strike; of Teutonic origin; cf. dial. G. tapp, tapps, a blow, tappe a paw, fist, G. tappen to grope.] 1. To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane. 2. To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes. | |
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Boom \Boom\ (b[oomac]m), n. [D. boom tree, pole, beam, bar. See {Beam}.] 1. (Naut.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc. 2. (Mech.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended. 3. A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.] 4. (Mil. & Naval) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage. 5. (Lumbering) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. {Boom iron}, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. {The booms}, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. --Totten. | |
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Fancy \Fan"cy\, n.; pl. {Fancies}. [Contr. fr. fantasy, OF. fantasie, fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] appearance, imagination, the power of perception and presentation in the mind, fr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to make visible, to place before one's mind, fr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to show; akin to [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?], light, Skr. bh[be]to shine. Cf. {Fantasy}, {Fantasia}, {Epiphany}, {Phantom}.] 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. --Milton. 2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit. How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ? --Shak. 3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression. I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. --Locke. 4. Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking. To fit your fancies to your father's will. --Shak. 5. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. --Mortimer. 6. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] --Shak. {The fancy}, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. --De Quincey. Syn: Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim; liking. See {Imagination}. | |
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Theophanic \The`o*phan"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to a theopany; appearing to man, as a god. | |
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Theopneusted \The`op*neus"ted\, a. Divinely inspired; theopneustic. [R.] | |
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Theopneustic \The`op*neus"tic\, a. [Gr. [?] inspired of God; [?] God + [?] to blow, to breathe.] Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God. | |
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Theopneusty \The"op*neus`ty\, n. [Gr. [?].] Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth. | |
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Thieve \Thieve\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Thieved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thieving}.] [AS. ge[thorn]e[a2]fian.] To practice theft; to steal. | |
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Thiophenic \Thi`o*phen"ic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, thiophene; specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to benzoic acid. | |
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Tiff \Tiff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tiffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tiffing}.] To be in a pet. She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. --Landor. | |
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Tip \Tip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tipped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tipping}.] To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. --Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. --Thomson. | |
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Tipping \Tip"ping\, n. (Mus.) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing. | |
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Bank \Bank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banked}(b[acr][nsm]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Banking}.] 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. [bd]Banked well with earth.[b8] --Holland. 2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. 3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] --Shak. {To bank a fire}, {To bank up a fire}, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive. | |
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Bank \Bank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banked}(b[acr][nsm]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Banking}.] 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. [bd]Banked well with earth.[b8] --Holland. 2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. 3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] --Shak. {To bank a fire}, {To bank up a fire}, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive. | |
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Conclave \Con"clave\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. conclave a room that may locked up; con- + clavis key. See {Clavicle}.] 1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope. 2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. --South. 3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. --Macaulay. {To be in conclave}, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons. | |
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Feather \Feath"er\, n. [OE. fether, AS. fe[?]der; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel. fj[94][?]r, Sw. fj[84]der, Dan. fj[91]der, Gr. [?] wing, feather, [?] to fly, Skr. pattra wing, feathr, pat to fly, and prob. to L. penna feather, wing. [root]76, 248. Cf. {Pen} a feather.] 1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. Note: An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of slender lamin[91] or barbs, which usually bear barbicels and interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together. See {Down}, {Quill}, {Plumage}. 2. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, [bd]Birds of a feather,[b8] that is, of the same species. [R.] I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. --Shak. 3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. 4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. 5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. 6. (Mach. & Carp.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline. 7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. --Knight. 8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. Note: Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as, feather fan, feather-heeled, feather duster. {Feather alum} (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; -- called also {halotrichite}. --Ure. {Feather bed}, a bed filled with feathers. {Feather driver}, one who prepares feathers by beating. {Feather duster}, a dusting brush of feathers. {Feather flower}, an artifical flower made of feathers, for ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes. {Feather grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Stipa pennata}) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the chaffy scales which inclose the grain. {Feather maker}, one who makes plumes, etc., of feathers, real or artificial. {Feather ore} (Min.), a sulphide of antimony and lead, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive. It is a variety of Jamesonite. {Feather shot}, [or] {Feathered shot} (Metal.), copper granulated by pouring into cold water. --Raymond. {Feather spray} (Naut.), the spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel. {Feather star}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Comatula}. {Feather weight}. (Racing) (a) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted. (b) The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. --Youatt. (c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; -- in contradistinction to {light weight}, {middle weight}, and {heavy weight}. {A feather in the cap} an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. [Colloq.] {To be in full feather}, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes. [Collog.] {To be in high feather}, to be in high spirits. [Collog.] {To cut a feather}. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous. [Colloq.] {To show the white feather}, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed. | |
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Mischief \Mis"chief\, n. [OE. meschef bad result, OF. meschief; pref. mes- (L. minus less) + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See {Minus}, and {Chief}.] 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. --Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. --Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many mischiefs. --Fuller. 2. Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble. --Milton. The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued. --Swift. {To be in mischief}, to be doing harm or causing annoyance. {To make mischief}, to do mischief, especially by exciting quarrels. {To play the mischief}, to cause great harm; to throw into confusion. [Colloq.] Syn: Damage; harm; hurt; injury; detriment; evil; ill. Usage: {Mischief}, {Damage}, {Harm}. Damage is an injury which diminishes the value of a thing; harm is an injury which causes trouble or inconvenience; mischief is an injury which disturbs the order and consistency of things. We often suffer damage or harm from accident, but mischief always springs from perversity or folly. | |
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Master \Mas"ter\, n. [OE. maistre, maister, OF. maistre, mestre, F. ma[8c]tre, fr. L. magister, orig. a double comparative from the root of magnus great, akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Maestro}, {Magister}, {Magistrate}, {Magnitude}, {Major}, {Mister}, {Mistress}, {Mickle}.] 1. A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being. 2. One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. --Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. --Addison. We are masters of the sea. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 3. One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art. Great masters of ridicule. --Maccaulay. No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. --Locke. 4. A title given by courtesy, now commonly pronounced m[cc]ster, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written {Mister}, but usually abbreviated to Mr. 5. A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. --Swift. 6. (Naut.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel. 7. A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies. {Little masters}, certain German engravers of the 16th century, so called from the extreme smallness of their prints. {Master in chancery}, an officer of courts of equity, who acts as an assistant to the chancellor or judge, by inquiring into various matters referred to him, and reporting thereon to the court. {Master of arts}, one who takes the second degree at a university; also, the degree or title itself, indicated by the abbreviation M. A., or A. M. {Master of the horse}, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign. {Master of the rolls}, in England, an officer who has charge of the rolls and patents that pass the great seal, and of the records of the chancery, and acts as assistant judge of the court. --Bouvier. --Wharton. {Past master}, one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. {The old masters}, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. {To be master of one's self}, to have entire self-control; not to be governed by passion. {To be one's own master}, to be at liberty to act as one chooses without dictation from anybody. Note: Master, signifying chief, principal, masterly, superior, thoroughly skilled, etc., is often used adjiectively or in compounds; as, master builder or master-builder, master chord or master-chord, master mason or master-mason, master workman or master-workman, master mechanic, master mind, master spirit, master passion, etc. Throughout the city by the master gate. --Chaucer. {Master joint} (Geol.), a quarryman's term for the more prominent and extended joints traversing a rock mass. {Master key}, a key adapted to open several locks differing somewhat from each other; figuratively, a rule or principle of general application in solving difficulties. {Master lode} (Mining), the principal vein of ore. {Master mariner}, an experienced and skilled seaman who is certified to be competent to command a merchant vessel. {Master sinew} (Far.), a large sinew that surrounds the hough of a horse, and divides it from the bone by a hollow place, where the windgalls are usually seated. {Master singer}. See {Mastersinger}. {Master stroke}, a capital performance; a masterly achievement; a consummate action; as, a master stroke of policy. {Master tap} (Mech.), a tap for forming the thread in a screw cutting die. {Master touch}. (a) The touch or skill of a master. --Pope. (b) Some part of a performance which exhibits very skillful work or treatment. [bd]Some master touches of this admirable piece.[b8] --Tatler. {Master work}, the most important work accomplished by a skilled person, as in architecture, literature, etc.; also, a work which shows the skill of a master; a masterpiece. {Master workman}, a man specially skilled in any art, handicraft, or trade, or who is an overseer, foreman, or employer. | |
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(e) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble. Both meet to hear and answer such high things. --Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. --Wordsworth. (f) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper. --South. (g) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense. An high look and a proud heart . . . is sin. --Prov. xxi. 4. His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. --Clarendon. 3. Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. High time it is this war now ended were. --Spenser. High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies. --Baker. 4. (Cookery) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high. 5. (Mus.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to {grave} or {low}; as, a high note. 6. (Phon.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as [emac] ([emac]ve), [oomac] (f[oomac]d). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 10, 11. {High admiral}, the chief admiral. {High altar}, the principal altar in a church. {High and dry}, out of water; out of reach of the current or tide; -- said of a vessel, aground or beached. {High and mighty} arrogant; overbearing. [Colloq.] {High art}, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display. {High bailiff}, the chief bailiff. {High Church}, [and] {Low Church}, two ecclesiastical parties in the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. The high-churchmen emphasize the doctrine of the apostolic succession, and hold, in general, to a sacramental presence in the Eucharist, to baptismal regeneration, and to the sole validity of Episcopal ordination. They attach much importance to ceremonies and symbols in worship. Low-churchmen lay less stress on these points, and, in many instances, reject altogether the peculiar tenets of the high-church school. See {Broad Church}. {High constable} (Law), a chief of constabulary. See {Constable}, n., 2. {High commission court},a court of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England erected and united to the regal power by Queen Elizabeth in 1559. On account of the abuse of its powers it was abolished in 1641. {High day} (Script.), a holy or feast day. --John xix. 31. {High festival} (Eccl.), a festival to be observed with full ceremonial. {High German}, [or] {High Dutch}. See under {German}. {High jinks}, an old Scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry; wild sport. [Colloq.] [bd]All the high jinks of the county, when the lad comes of age.[b8] --F. Harrison. {High latitude} (Geog.), one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator. {High life}, life among the aristocracy or the rich. {High liver}, one who indulges in a rich diet. {High living}, a feeding upon rich, pampering food. {High Mass}. (R. C. Ch.) See under {Mass}. {High milling}, a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. {High noon}, the time when the sun is in the meridian. {High place} (Script.), an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered. {High priest}. See in the Vocabulary. {High relief}. (Fine Arts) See {Alto-rilievo}. {High school}. See under {School}. {High seas} (Law), the open sea; the part of the ocean not in the territorial waters of any particular sovereignty, usually distant three miles or more from the coast line. --Wharton. {High steam}, steam having a high pressure. {High steward}, the chief steward. {High tea}, tea with meats and extra relishes. {High tide}, the greatest flow of the tide; high water. {High time}. (a) Quite time; full time for the occasion. (b) A time of great excitement or enjoyment; a carousal. [Slang] {High treason}, treason against the sovereign or the state, the highest civil offense. See {Treason}. Note: It is now sufficient to speak of high treason as treason simply, seeing that petty treason, as a distinct offense, has been abolished. --Mozley & W. {High water}, the utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide; also, the time of such elevation. {High-water mark}. (a) That line of the seashore to which the waters ordinarily reach at high water. (b) A mark showing the highest level reached by water in a river or other body of fresh water, as in time of freshet. {High-water shrub} (Bot.), a composite shrub ({Iva frutescens}), growing in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States. {High wine}, distilled spirits containing a high percentage of alcohol; -- usually in the plural. {To be on a high horse}, to be on one's dignity; to bear one's self loftily. [Colloq.] {With a high hand}. (a) With power; in force; triumphantly. [bd]The children of Israel went out with a high hand.[b8] --Ex. xiv. 8. (b) In an overbearing manner, arbitrarily. [bd]They governed the city with a high hand.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Syn: Tall; lofty; elevated; noble; exalted; supercilious; proud; violent; full; dear. See {Tall}. | |
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Commons \Com"mons\, n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. --Shak. The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. --Blackstone. 2. The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. --Hume. 3. Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. --Dryden. 4. A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons. 5. A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. --Shak. {Doctors' Commons}, a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. {To be on short commons}, to have a small allowance of food. [Colloq.] | |
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Speaking \Speak"ing\, a. 1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. {A speaking acquaintance}, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects. {Speaking trumpet}, an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance. {Speaking tube}, a tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance. {To be on speaking terms}, to be slightly acquainted. | |
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2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I Cor. xiii. 11. Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden. 3. The human race; mankind. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i. 26. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope. 4. The male portion of the human race. Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper. 5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. --Shak. This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world [bd]This was a man![b8] --Shak. 6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. Like master, like man. --Old Proverb. The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. --Blackstone. 7. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! 8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife. I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of Com. Prayer. every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison. 9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. A man can not make him laugh. --Shak. A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. --Addison. 10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman). {Man ape} (Zo[94]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. {Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed. {Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. {Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. {Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. {Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root. {Man of war}. (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. {To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another. | |
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Master \Mas"ter\, n. [OE. maistre, maister, OF. maistre, mestre, F. ma[8c]tre, fr. L. magister, orig. a double comparative from the root of magnus great, akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Maestro}, {Magister}, {Magistrate}, {Magnitude}, {Major}, {Mister}, {Mistress}, {Mickle}.] 1. A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being. 2. One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. --Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. --Addison. We are masters of the sea. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 3. One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art. Great masters of ridicule. --Maccaulay. No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. --Locke. 4. A title given by courtesy, now commonly pronounced m[cc]ster, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written {Mister}, but usually abbreviated to Mr. 5. A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. --Swift. 6. (Naut.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel. 7. A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies. {Little masters}, certain German engravers of the 16th century, so called from the extreme smallness of their prints. {Master in chancery}, an officer of courts of equity, who acts as an assistant to the chancellor or judge, by inquiring into various matters referred to him, and reporting thereon to the court. {Master of arts}, one who takes the second degree at a university; also, the degree or title itself, indicated by the abbreviation M. A., or A. M. {Master of the horse}, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign. {Master of the rolls}, in England, an officer who has charge of the rolls and patents that pass the great seal, and of the records of the chancery, and acts as assistant judge of the court. --Bouvier. --Wharton. {Past master}, one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. {The old masters}, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. {To be master of one's self}, to have entire self-control; not to be governed by passion. {To be one's own master}, to be at liberty to act as one chooses without dictation from anybody. Note: Master, signifying chief, principal, masterly, superior, thoroughly skilled, etc., is often used adjiectively or in compounds; as, master builder or master-builder, master chord or master-chord, master mason or master-mason, master workman or master-workman, master mechanic, master mind, master spirit, master passion, etc. Throughout the city by the master gate. --Chaucer. {Master joint} (Geol.), a quarryman's term for the more prominent and extended joints traversing a rock mass. {Master key}, a key adapted to open several locks differing somewhat from each other; figuratively, a rule or principle of general application in solving difficulties. {Master lode} (Mining), the principal vein of ore. {Master mariner}, an experienced and skilled seaman who is certified to be competent to command a merchant vessel. {Master sinew} (Far.), a large sinew that surrounds the hough of a horse, and divides it from the bone by a hollow place, where the windgalls are usually seated. {Master singer}. See {Mastersinger}. {Master stroke}, a capital performance; a masterly achievement; a consummate action; as, a master stroke of policy. {Master tap} (Mech.), a tap for forming the thread in a screw cutting die. {Master touch}. (a) The touch or skill of a master. --Pope. (b) Some part of a performance which exhibits very skillful work or treatment. [bd]Some master touches of this admirable piece.[b8] --Tatler. {Master work}, the most important work accomplished by a skilled person, as in architecture, literature, etc.; also, a work which shows the skill of a master; a masterpiece. {Master workman}, a man specially skilled in any art, handicraft, or trade, or who is an overseer, foreman, or employer. | |
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Mistress \Mis"tress\, n. [OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F. ma[8c]tresse, LL. magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See {Master}, {Mister}, and cf. {Miss} a young woman.] 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak. 2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. --Addison. 3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. [Poetic] --Clarendon. 4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually. --Spectator. 5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman. Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper. 6. A married woman; a wife. [Scot.] Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening. --Sir W. Scott. 7. The old name of the jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl. {To be one's own mistress}, to be exempt from control by another person. | |
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Bung \Bung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bunged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bunging}.] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up. {To bung up}, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low] He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. --Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote). | |
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Buy \Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Buying}.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.] 1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. --B. Franklin. 2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. --Prov. xxiii. 23. {To buy again}. See {Againbuy}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To buy off}. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. {To buy out} (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. {To buy in}, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. {To buy on credit}, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. {To buy the refusal} (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time. | |
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Fang \Fang\, n. [From {Fang}, v. t.; cf. AS. fang a taking, booty, G. fang.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. --Shak. 2. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. --Evelyn. 3. (Anat.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See {Tooth}. 4. (Mining) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course. --Knight. 5. (Mech.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle. 6. (Naut.) (a) The valve of a pump box. (b) A bend or loop of a rope. {In a fang}, fast entangled. {To lose the fang}, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: {To fang a pump}, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.] | |
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Fence \Fence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fenced ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fencing}.] 1. To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard. To fence my ear against thy sorceries. --Milton. 2. To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure. O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth, And fence not Athens. --Shak. A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees. --Shak. {To fence the tables} (Scot. Church), to make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table. --McCheyne. | |
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Funk \Funk\, v. i. 1. To emit an offensive smell; to stink. 2. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] --C. Kingsley. {To funk out}, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. --Lowell (Biglow Papers). | |
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Contemplation \Con`tem*pla"tion\, n. [F. contemplation, L. contemplatio.] 1. The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study. In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God. --Milton. Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. --Locke. 2. Holy meditation. [Obs.] To live in prayer and contemplation. --Shak. 3. The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. --Reid. {To have in contemplation}, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration. | |
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Dough \Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[be]h; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. [?] wall, [?] to touch, handle. [?]. Cf. {Feign}, {Figure}, {Dairy}, {Duff}.] 1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. 2. Anything of the consistency of such paste. {To have one's cake dough}. See under {Cake}. | |
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Cake \Cake\ (k[amac]k), n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G. kuchen, OHG. chuocho.] 1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. 2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. 3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. 4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. --Dryden. {Cake urchin} (Zo[94]l), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the {Clypeastroidea}. {Oil cake} the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. {To have one's cake dough}, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. --Shak. | |
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Ear \Ear\, n. [AS. e[a0]re; akin to OFries. [a0]re, [a0]r, OS. [?]ra, D. oor, OHG. [?]ra, G. ohr, Icel. eyra, Sw. [94]ra, Dan. [94]re, Goth. auso, L. auris, Lith. ausis, Russ. ukho, Gr. [?]; cf. L. audire to hear, Gr. [?], Skr. av to favor, protect. Cf. {Auricle}, {Orillon}.] 1. The organ of hearing; the external ear. Note: In man and the higher vertebrates, the organ of hearing is very complicated, and is divisible into three parts: the external ear, which includes the pinna or auricle and meatus or external opening; the middle ear, drum, or tympanum; and the internal ear, or labyrinth. The middle ear is a cavity connected by the Eustachian tube with the pharynx, separated from the opening of the external ear by the tympanic membrane, and containing a chain of three small bones, or ossicles, named malleus, incus, and stapes, which connect this membrane with the internal ear. The essential part of the internal ear where the fibers of the auditory nerve terminate, is the membranous labyrinth, a complicated system of sacs and tubes filled with a fluid (the endolymph), and lodged in a cavity, called the bony labyrinth, in the periotic bone. The membranous labyrinth does not completely fill the bony labyrinth, but is partially suspended in it in a fluid (the perilymph). The bony labyrinth consists of a central cavity, the vestibule, into which three semicircular canals and the canal of the cochlea (spirally coiled in mammals) open. The vestibular portion of the membranous labyrinth consists of two sacs, the utriculus and sacculus, connected by a narrow tube, into the former of which three membranous semicircular canals open, while the latter is connected with a membranous tube in the cochlea containing the organ of Corti. By the help of the external ear the sonorous vibrations of the air are concentrated upon the tympanic membrane and set it vibrating, the chain of bones in the middle ear transmits these vibrations to the internal ear, where they cause certain delicate structures in the organ of Corti, and other parts of the membranous labyrinth, to stimulate the fibers of the auditory nerve to transmit sonorous impulses to the brain. 2. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear. --Tennyson. 3. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of {Bell}. 4. (Arch.) (a) Same as {Acroterium}. (b) Same as {Crossette}. 5. Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit. --Bacon. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. --Shak. {About the ears}, in close proximity to; near at hand. {By the ears}, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. {Button ear} (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely hides the inside. {Ear finger}, the little finger. {Ear of Dionysius}, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. {Ear sand} (Anat.), otoliths. See {Otolith}. {Ear snail} (Zo[94]l.), any snail of the genus {Auricula} and allied genera. {Ear stones} (Anat.), otoliths. See {Otolith}. {Ear trumpet}, an instrument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a slender extremity which enters the ear, thus collecting and intensifying sounds so as to assist the hearing of a partially deaf person. {Ear vesicle} (Zo[94]l.), a simple auditory organ, occurring in many worms, mollusks, etc. It consists of a small sac containing a fluid and one or more solid concretions or otocysts. {Rose ear} (in dogs), an ear which folds backward and shows part of the inside. {To give ear to}, to listen to; to heed, as advice or one advising. [bd]Give ear unto my song.[b8] --Goldsmith. {To have one's ear}, to be listened to with favor. {Up to the ears}, deeply submerged; almost overwhelmed; as, to be in trouble up to one's ears. [Colloq.] | |
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Fling \Fling\, n. 1. A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse. 2. A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm. I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house and king. --Swift. 3. A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling. 4. A trifing matter; an object of contempt. [Obs.] England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing. --Old Proverb. {To have one's fling}, to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. --J. H. Newman. [bd]When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure.[b8] --D. Jerrold. | |
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Handful \Hand"ful\, n.; pl. {Hand flus}. [AS. handfull.] 1. As much as the hand will grasp or contain. --Addison. 2. A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. --Bacon. 3. A small quantity. This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. --Fuller. {To have one's handful}, to have one's hands full; to have all one can do. [Obs.] They had their handful to defend themselves from firing. --Sir. W. Raleigh. | |
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Hand \Hand\, n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[94]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hinpan to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See {Manus}. 2. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand; as: (a) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey. (b) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock. 3. A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses. 4. Side; part; direction, either right or left. On this hand and that hand, were hangings. --Ex. xxxviii. 15. The Protestants were then on the winning hand. --Milton. 5. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity. He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator. --Addison. 6. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance. To change the hand in carrying on the war. --Clarendon. Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand. --Judges vi. 36. 7. An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking. A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for. --Locke. I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile. --Hazlitt. 8. Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature. I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. --Shak. Some writs require a judge's hand. --Burril. 9. Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural. [bd]Receiving in hand one year's tribute.[b8] --Knolles. Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the goverment of Britain. --Milton. 10. Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new. 11. Rate; price. [Obs.] [bd]Business is bought at a dear hand, where there is small dispatch.[b8] --Bacon. 12. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once; as: (a) (Card Playing) The quota of cards received from the dealer. (b) (Tobacco Manuf.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together. 13. (Firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim. Note: Hand is used figuratively for a large variety of acts or things, in the doing, or making, or use of which the hand is in some way employed or concerned; also, as a symbol to denote various qualities or conditions, as: (a) Activity; operation; work; -- in distinction from the head, which implies thought, and the heart, which implies affection. [bd]His hand will be against every man.[b8] --Gen. xvi. 12. (b) Power; might; supremacy; -- often in the Scriptures. [bd]With a mighty hand . . . will I rule over you.[b8] --Ezek. xx. 33. (c) Fraternal feeling; as, to give, or take, the hand; to give the right hand. (d) Contract; -- commonly of marriage; as, to ask the hand; to pledge the hand. Note: Hand is often used adjectively or in compounds (with or without the hyphen), signifying performed by the hand; as, hand blow or hand-blow, hand gripe or hand-gripe: used by, or designed for, the hand; as, hand ball or handball, hand bow, hand fetter, hand grenade or hand-grenade, handgun or hand gun, handloom or hand loom, handmill or hand organ or handorgan, handsaw or hand saw, hand-weapon: measured or regulated by the hand; as, handbreadth or hand's breadth, hand gallop or hand-gallop. Most of the words in the following paragraph are written either as two words or in combination. {Hand bag}, a satchel; a small bag for carrying books, papers, parcels, etc. {Hand basket}, a small or portable basket. {Hand bell}, a small bell rung by the hand; a table bell. --Bacon. {Hand bill}, a small pruning hook. See 4th {Bill}. {Hand car}. See under {Car}. {Hand director} (Mus.), an instrument to aid in forming a good position of the hands and arms when playing on the piano; a hand guide. {Hand drop}. See {Wrist drop}. {Hand gallop}. See under {Gallop}. {Hand gear} (Mach.), apparatus by means of which a machine, or parts of a machine, usually operated by other power, may be operated by hand. {Hand glass}. (a) A glass or small glazed frame, for the protection of plants. (b) A small mirror with a handle. {Hand guide}. Same as {Hand director} (above). {Hand language}, the art of conversing by the hands, esp. as practiced by the deaf and dumb; dactylology. {Hand lathe}. See under {Lathe}. {Hand money}, money paid in hand to bind a contract; earnest money. {Hand organ} (Mus.), a barrel organ, operated by a crank turned by hand. {Hand plant}. (Bot.) Same as {Hand tree} (below). -- {Hand rail}, a rail, as in staircases, to hold by. --Gwilt. {Hand sail}, a sail managed by the hand. --Sir W. Temple. {Hand screen}, a small screen to be held in the hand. {Hand screw}, a small jack for raising heavy timbers or weights; (Carp.) a screw clamp. {Hand staff} (pl. {Hand staves}), a javelin. --Ezek. xxxix. 9. {Hand stamp}, a small stamp for dating, addressing, or canceling papers, envelopes, etc. {Hand tree} (Bot.), a lofty tree found in Mexico ({Cheirostemon platanoides}), having red flowers whose stamens unite in the form of a hand. {Hand vise}, a small vise held in the hand in doing small work. --Moxon. {Hand work}, [or] {Handwork}, work done with the hands, as distinguished from work done by a machine; handiwork. {All hands}, everybody; all parties. {At all hands}, {On all hands}, on all sides; from every direction; generally. {At any hand}, {At no hand}, in any (or no) way or direction; on any account; on no account. [bd]And therefore at no hand consisting with the safety and interests of humility.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. {At first hand}, {At second hand}. See def. 10 (above). {At hand}. (a) Near in time or place; either present and within reach, or not far distant. [bd]Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet.[b8] --Shak. (b) Under the hand or bridle. [Obs.] [bd]Horses hot at hand.[b8] --Shak. {At the hand of}, by the act of; as a gift from. [bd]Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?[b8] --Job ii. 10. {Bridle hand}. See under {Bridle}. {By hand}, with the hands, in distinction from instrumentality of tools, engines, or animals; as, to weed a garden by hand; to lift, draw, or carry by hand. {Clean hands}, freedom from guilt, esp. from the guilt of dishonesty in money matters, or of bribe taking. [bd]He that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.[b8] --Job xvii. 9. {From hand to hand}, from one person to another. {Hand in hand}. (a) In union; conjointly; unitedly. --Swift. (b) Just; fair; equitable. As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand comparison. --Shak. {Hand over hand}, {Hand over fist}, by passing the hands alternately one before or above another; as, to climb hand over hand; also, rapidly; as, to come up with a chase hand over hand. {Hand over head}, negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does. [Obs.] --Bacon. {Hand running}, consecutively; as, he won ten times hand running. {Hand off!} keep off! forbear! no interference or meddling! {Hand to hand}, in close union; in close fight; as, a hand to hand contest. --Dryden. {Heavy hand}, severity or oppression. {In hand}. (a) Paid down. [bd]A considerable reward in hand, and . . . a far greater reward hereafter.[b8] --Tillotson. (b) In preparation; taking place. --Chaucer. [bd]Revels . . . in hand.[b8] --Shak. (c) Under consideration, or in the course of transaction; as, he has the business in hand. {In one's hand} [or] {hands}. (a) In one's possession or keeping. (b) At one's risk, or peril; as, I took my life in my hand. {Laying on of hands}, a form used in consecrating to office, in the rite of confirmation, and in blessing persons. {Light hand}, gentleness; moderation. {Note of hand}, a promissory note. {Off hand}, {Out of hand}, forthwith; without delay, hesitation, or difficulty; promptly. [bd]She causeth them to be hanged up out of hand.[b8] --Spenser. {Off one's hands}, out of one's possession or care. {On hand}, in present possession; as, he has a supply of goods on hand. {On one's hands}, in one's possession care, or management. {Putting the hand under the thigh}, an ancient Jewish ceremony used in swearing. {Right hand}, the place of honor, power, and strength. {Slack hand}, idleness; carelessness; inefficiency; sloth. {Strict hand}, severe discipline; rigorous government. {To bear a hand} (Naut), to give help quickly; to hasten. {To bear in hand}, to keep in expectation with false pretenses. [Obs.] --Shak. {To be} {hand and glove, [or] in glove} {with}. See under {Glove}. {To be on the mending hand}, to be convalescent or improving. {To bring up by hand}, to feed (an infant) without suckling it. {To change hand}. See {Change}. {To change hands}, to change sides, or change owners. --Hudibras. {To clap the hands}, to express joy or applause, as by striking the palms of the hands together. {To come to hand}, to be received; to be taken into possession; as, the letter came to hand yesterday. {To get hand}, to gain influence. [Obs.] Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them. --Baxter. {To got one's hand in}, to make a beginning in a certain work; to become accustomed to a particular business. {To have a hand in}, to be concerned in; to have a part or concern in doing; to have an agency or be employed in. {To have in hand}. (a) To have in one's power or control. --Chaucer. (b) To be engaged upon or occupied with. {To have one's hands full}, to have in hand al that one can do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with difficulties. {To} {have, [or] get}, {the (higher) upper hand}, to have, or get, the better of another person or thing. {To his hand}, {To my hand}, etc., in readiness; already prepared. [bd]The work is made to his hands.[b8] --Locke. {To hold hand}, to compete successfully or on even conditions. [Obs.] --Shak. {To lay hands on}, to seize; to assault. {To lend a hand}, to give assistance. {To} {lift, [or] put forth}, {the hand against}, to attack; to oppose; to kill. {To live from hand to mouth}, to obtain food and other necessaries as want compels, without previous provision. {To make one's hand}, to gain advantage or profit. {To put the hand unto}, to steal. --Ex. xxii. 8. {To put the} {last, [or] finishing}, {hand to}, to make the last corrections in; to complete; to perfect. {To set the hand to}, to engage in; to undertake. That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to. --Deut. xxiii. 20. {To stand one in hand}, to concern or affect one. {To strike hands}, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. {To take in hand}. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. {To wash the hands of}, to disclaim or renounce interest in, or responsibility for, a person or action; as, to wash one's hands of a business. --Matt. xxvii. 24. {Under the hand of}, authenticated by the handwriting or signature of; as, the deed is executed under the hand and seal of the owner. | |
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Will \Will\, n. [OE. wille, AS. willa; akin to OFries. willa, OS. willeo, willio, D. wil, G. wille, Icel. vili, Dan. villie, Sw. vilja, Goth wilja. See {Will}, v.] 1. The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects. It is necessary to form a distinct notion of what is meant by the word [bd]volition[b8] in order to understand the import of the word will, for this last word expresses the power of mind of which [bd]volition[b8] is the act. --Stewart. Will is an ambiguous word, being sometimes put for the faculty of willing; sometimes for the act of that faculty, besides [having] other meanings. But [bd]volition[b8] always signifies the act of willing, and nothing else. --Reid. Appetite is the will's solicitor, and the will is appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject. --Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything. --J. Edwards. 2. The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition. The word [bd]will,[b8] however, is not always used in this its proper acceptation, but is frequently substituted for [bd]volition[b8], as when I say that my hand mover in obedience to my will. --Stewart. 3. The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure. Thy will be done. --Matt. vi. 10. Our prayers should be according to the will of God. --Law. 4. Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose. Note: [bd]Inclination is another word with which will is frequently confounded. Thus, when the apothecary says, in Romeo and Juliet, My poverty, but not my will, consents; . . . Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off. the word will is plainly used as, synonymous with inclination; not in the strict logical sense, as the immediate antecedent of action. It is with the same latitude that the word is used in common conversation, when we speak of doing a thing which duty prescribes, against one's own will; or when we speak of doing a thing willingly or unwillingly.[b8] --Stewart. 5. That which is strongly wished or desired. What's your will, good friar? --Shak. The mariner hath his will. --Coleridge. 6. Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies. --Ps. xxvii. 12. 7. (Law) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under {Testament}, 1. Note: Wills are written or nuncupative, that is, oral. See {Nuncupative will}, under {Nuncupative}. {At will} (Law), at pleasure. To hold an estate at the will of another, is to enjoy the possession at his pleasure, and be liable to be ousted at any time by the lessor or proprietor. An estate at will is at the will of both parties. {Good will}. See under {Good}. {Ill will}, enmity; unfriendliness; malevolence. {To have one's will}, to obtain what is desired; to do what one pleases. {Will worship}, worship according to the dictates of the will or fancy; formal worship. [Obs.] {Will worshiper}, one who offers will worship. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. {With a will}, with willingness and zeal; with all one's heart or strength; earnestly; heartily. | |
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Heave \Heave\ (h[emac]v), v. i. 1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. --Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. --Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. --E. Everett. 2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. --Prior. The heaving plain of ocean. --Byron. 3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. --Atterbury. 4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit. {To heave at}. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] --Fuller. {To heave in sight} (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. {To heave up}, to vomit. [Low] | |
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Heave \Heave\, v. t. [imp. {Heaved}, or {Hove}; p. p. {Heaved}, {Hove}, formerly {Hoven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heaving}.] [OE. heven, hebben, As. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heven, Icel. h[84]fva, Dan. h[91]ve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. [?] handle. Cf. {Accept}, {Behoof}, {Capacious}, {Forceps}, {haft}, {Receipt}.] 1. To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. --Shak. Note: Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense. Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand. --Herrick. 2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log. 3. To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead. 4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh. The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. --Shak. 5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores. --Thomson. {To heave a cable short} (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. {To heave a ship ahead} (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. {To heave a ship down} (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her. {To heave a ship to} (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. {To heave about} (Naut.), to put about suddenly. {To heave in} (Naut.), to shorten (cable). {To heave in stays} (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. {To heave out a sail} (Naut.), to unfurl it. {To heave taut} (Naut.), to turn a | |
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They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. --Shak. Note: Attention is consciousness and something more. It is consciousness voluntarily applied, under its law of limitations, to some determinate object; it is consciousness concentrated. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. An act of civility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger. {To pay attention to}, {To pay one's attentions to}, to be courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to court. Syn: Care; heed; study; consideration; application; advertence; respect; regard. | |
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing. | |
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{To pay one's duty}, to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior. {To pay out} (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under {Cable}. {To pay the piper}, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.] | |
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Footing \Foot"ing\, n. 1. Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. --Holder. 2. Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold. As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite. --Macaulay. 3. Relative condition; state. Lived on a footing of equality with nobles. --Macaulay. 4. Tread; step; especially, measured tread. Hark, I hear the footing of a man. --Shak. 5. The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column. 6. The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking. 7. A narrow cotton lace, without figures. 8. The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. --Simmonds. 9. (Arch. & Enging.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot. {Footing course} (Arch.), one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. {To pay one's footing}, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. --Wright. {Footing beam}, the tie beam of a roof. | |
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Pinch \Pinch\, v. i. 1. To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches. 2. (Hunt.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. [Obs.] 3. To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. --Gower. The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. --Franklin. {To pinch at}, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Nose \Nose\, n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. n[94]s, Sw. n[84]sa, Dan. n[84]se, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[be]s[be], n[be]s. [?] Cf. {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril}, {Nozzle}.] 1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See {Nostril}, and {Olfactory organ} under {Olfactory}. 2. The power of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. --Collier. 3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. {Nose bit} (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. {Nose hammer} (Mach.), a frontal hammer. {Nose hole} (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. {Nose key} (Carp.), a fox wedge. {Nose leaf} (Zo[94]l.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. {Nose of wax}, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. [bd]A nose of wax to be turned every way.[b8] --Massinger {Nose piece}, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. {To hold}, {put}, [or] {bring one's nose to the grindstone}. See under {Grindstone}. {To lead by the nose}, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. --Shak. {To put one's nose out of joint}, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] {To thrust one's nose into}, to meddle officiously in. {To wipe one's nose of}, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang] | |
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Tope \Tope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toped} (t[omac]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Toping}.] [F. t[ocir]per to cover a stake in playing at dice, to accept an offer, t[ocir]pe agreed!; -- perhaps imitative of the sound of striking hands on concluding a bargain. From being used in English as a drinking term, probably at first in accepting a toast.] To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess. If you tope in form, and treat. --Dryden. | |
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Topmast \Top"mast\, n. (Naut.) The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast. | |
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Topmost \Top"most`\, a. Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree. The nightngale may claim the topmost bough. --Cowper. | |
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Topping \Top"ping\, n. (Angling) The tail of an artificial fly. | |
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Top \Top\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Topped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Topping}.] 1. To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains. --Derham. 2. To predominate; as, topping passions. [bd]Influenced by topping uneasiness.[b8] --Locke. 3. To excel; to rise above others. But write thy, and top. --Dryden. | |
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Topping \Top"ping\, a. 1. Rising above; surpassing. 2. Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. --South. 3. Fine; gallant. [Slang] --Johnson. | |
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Topping \Top"ping\, n. 1. The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top. 2. (Naut.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other. 3. pl. That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling. {Topping lift} (Naut.), a large, strong tackle employed to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom. | |
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Topping \Top"ping\, n. 1. The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top. 2. (Naut.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other. 3. pl. That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling. {Topping lift} (Naut.), a large, strong tackle employed to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom. | |
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Toppingly \Top"ping*ly\, adv. In a topping or proud manner. | |
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Toppingly \Top"ping*ly\, a. Same as {Topping}, a., 3. [Obs.] [bd]Topping quests.[b8] --Tusser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Top out \Top out\ (Building) To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a {top`ping-out" course}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tub \Tub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tubbing}.] To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tubbing \Tub"bing\, n. 1. The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs. 2. A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tube-nosed \Tube"-nosed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds. (b) Belonging to the Tubinares. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tube \Tube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tubed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tubing}.] To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tubing \Tub"ing\, n. 1. The act of making tubes. 2. A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twopence \Two"pence\ (?; 277), n. A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cat-tail \Cat"-tail\, n. (Bot.) A tall rush or flag ({Typha latifolia}) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See {Catkin}. Note: The {lesser cat-tail} is {Typha angustifolia}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polytype \Pol"y*type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-typed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-typing}.] (Print.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Type \Type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Typed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Typing}.] 1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] --White (Johnson). 2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.] Let us type them now in our own lives. --Tennyson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polytype \Pol"y*type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-typed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-typing}.] (Print.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Type \Type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Typed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Typing}.] 1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] --White (Johnson). 2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.] Let us type them now in our own lives. --Tennyson. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tappahannock, VA (town, FIPS 77568) Location: 37.91996 N, 76.86783 W Population (1990): 1550 (705 housing units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 22560 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tobinsport, IN Zip code(s): 47587 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Topanga, CA Zip code(s): 90290 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Toponas, CO Zip code(s): 80479 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Toppenish, WA (city, FIPS 71960) Location: 46.38112 N, 120.31155 W Population (1990): 7419 (2254 housing units) Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98948 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tahapanes =Tahpanhes=Tehaphnehes, (called "Daphne" by the Greeks, now Tell Defenneh), an ancient Egyptian city, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about 16 miles from Pelusium. The Jews from Jerusalem fled to this place after the death of Gedaliah (q.v.), and settled there for a time (Jer. 2:16; 43:7; 44:1; 46:14). A platform of brick-work, which there is every reason to believe was the pavement at the entry of Pharaoh's palace, has been discovered at this place. "Here," says the discoverer, Mr. Petrie, "the ceremony described by Jeremiah [43:8-10; "brick-kiln", i.e., pavement of brick] took place before the chiefs of the fugitives assembled on the platform, and here Nebuchadnezzar spread his royal pavilion" (R.V., "brickwork"). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tahpenes the wife of Pharaoh, who gave her sister in marriage to Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:19, 20). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tahapenes, secret temptation | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tahpenes, standard; flight; temptation | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
The Bahamas The Bahamas:Geography Location: Caribbean, chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida Map references: Central America and the Caribbean Area: total area: 13,940 sq km land area: 10,070 sq km comparative area: slightly larger than Connecticut Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 3,542 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 3 nm International disputes: none Climate: tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream Terrain: long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills Natural resources: salt, aragonite, timber Land use: arable land: 1% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 32% other: 67% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: coral reef decay natural hazards: hurricanes and other tropical storms that cause extensive flood and wind damage international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution Note: strategic location adjacent to US and Cuba; extensive island chain The Bahamas:People Population: 256,616 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 28% (female 35,924; male 36,504) 15-64 years: 66% (female 87,868; male 82,780) 65 years and over: 6% (female 8,247; male 5,293) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 1.09% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 19.23 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 5.79 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: -2.56 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 24.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.12 years male: 67.37 years female: 76.97 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 2.01 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Bahamian(s) adjective: Bahamian Ethnic divisions: black 85%, white 15% Religions: Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%, Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12%, none or unknown 3%, other 2% Languages: English, Creole (among Haitian immigrants) Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write but definition of literary not available (1963 est.) total population: 90% male: 90% female: 89% Labor force: 136,900 (1993) by occupation: government 30%, hotels and restaurants 25%, business services 10%, agriculture 5% (1989) The Bahamas:Government Names: conventional long form: Commonwealth of The Bahamas conventional short form: The Bahamas Digraph: BF Type: commonwealth Capital: Nassau Administrative divisions: 21 districts; Acklins and Crooked Islands, Bimini, Cat Island, Exuma, Freeport, Fresh Creek, Governor's Harbour, Green Turtle Cay, Harbour Island, High Rock, Inagua, Kemps Bay, Long Island, Marsh Harbour, Mayaguana, New Providence, Nicholls Town and Berry Islands, Ragged Island, Rock Sound, Sandy Point, San Salvador and Rum Cay Independence: 10 July 1973 (from UK) National holiday: National Day, 10 July (1973) Constitution: 10 July 1973 Legal system: based on English common law Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Sir Clifford DARLING (since 2 January 1992) head of government: Prime Minister Hubert A. INGRAHAM (since 19 August 1992) cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the governor on the prime minister's recommendation Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament Senate: a 16-member body appointed by the governor general House of Assembly: elections last held 19 August 1992 (next to be held by August 1997); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (49 total) FNM 32, PLP 17 Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), Sir Lynden O. PINDLING; Free National Movement (FNM), Hubert Alexander INGRAHAM; Member of: ACP, C, CARICOM, CCC, CDB, ECLAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador Timothy Baswell DONALDSON chancery: 2220 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: [1] (202) 319-2660 FAX: [1] (202) 319-2668 consulate(s) general: Miami and New York US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Sidney WILLIAMS embassy: Mosmar Building, Queen Street, Nassau mailing address: P. O. Box N-8197, Nassau telephone: [1] (809) 322-1181, 328-2206 FAX: [1] (809) 328-7838 Flag: three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine (top), gold, and aquamarine with a black equilateral triangle based on the hoist side Economy Overview: The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation whose economy is based primarily on tourism and offshore banking. Tourism alone provides about 50% of GDP and directly or indirectly employs about 50,000 people or 40% of the local work force. The economy has slackened in recent years, as the annual increase in the number of tourists slowed. Nonetheless, per capita GDP is one of the highest in the region. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.4 billion (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: 3.5% (1994 est.) National product per capita: $15,900 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.7% (1994) Unemployment rate: 13.1% (1993) Budget: revenues: $696 million expenditures: $756 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY94/95) Exports: $257 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.) commodities: pharmaceuticals, cement, rum, crawfish, refined petroleum products partners: US 51%, UK 7%, Norway 7%, France 6%, Italy 5% Imports: $1.15 billion (f.o.b,,1993 est.) commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, crude oil, vehicles, electronics partners: US 55%, Japan 17%, Nigeria 12%, Denmark 7%, Norway 6% External debt: $455 million (December 1993) Industrial production: growth rate 3% (1990); accounts for 15% of GDP Electricity: capacity: 424,000 kW production: 929 million kWh consumption per capita: 3,200 kWh (1993) Industries: tourism, banking, cement, oil refining and transshipment, salt production, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral welded steel pipe Agriculture: accounts for 5% of GDP; dominated by small-scale producers; principal products - citrus fruit, vegetables, poultry; large net importer of food Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for US and Europe; also a money-laundering center Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-89), $1 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $345 million Currency: 1 Bahamian dollar (B$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: Bahamian dollar (B$) per US$1 - 1.00 (fixed rate) Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June The Bahamas:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 2,400 km paved: 1,350 km unpaved: gravel 1,050 km Ports: Freeport, Matthew Town, Nassau Merchant marine: total: 936 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 21,815,474 GRT/35,253,416 DWT ships by type: bulk 162, cargo 181, chemical tanker 39, combination bulk 9, combination ore/oil 19, container 52, liquefied gas tanker 20, oil tanker 182, passenger 55, refrigerated cargo 146, roll-on/roll-off cargo 43, short-sea passenger 16, vehicle carrier 12 note: a flag of convenience registry; includes 46 countries among which are UK 158 ships, Norway 125, Greece 100, US 94, Denmark 80, Netherlands 53, France 36, Finland 35, Japan 35, Sweden 25 Airports: total: 60 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2 with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 16 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 11 with paved runways under 914 m: 22 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 8 The Bahamas:Communications Telephone system: 99,000 telephones; totally automatic system; highly developed local: NA intercity: NA international: tropospheric scatter and submarine cable links to Florida; 3 coaxial submarine cables; 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 1 televisions: NA The Bahamas:Defense Forces Branches: Royal Bahamas Defense Force (Coast Guard only), Royal Bahamas Police Force Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $65 million, 2.7% of GDP (1990) |