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   tailed frog
         n 1: western North American frog with a taillike copulatory
               organ [syn: {tailed frog}, {bell toad}, {ribbed toad},
               {tailed toad}, {Ascaphus trui}]

English Dictionary: teletypewriter by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tall white violet
n
  1. tall North American perennial with heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple streaks
    Synonym(s): Canada violet, tall white violet, white violet, Viola canadensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
teletype machine
n
  1. a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
    Synonym(s): teletypewriter, teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
teletypewriter
n
  1. a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
    Synonym(s): teletypewriter, teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tilletia foetida
n
  1. similar to Tilletia caries [syn: bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tilt-top table
n
  1. a pedestal table whose top is hinged so that it can be tilted to a vertical position
    Synonym(s): tilt-top table, tip- top table, tip table
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toilet bag
n
  1. a waterproof bag for holding bathrooms items (soap and toothpaste etc.) when you are travelling
    Synonym(s): toilet bag, sponge bag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toilet bowl
n
  1. the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toilet facility
n
  1. a toilet that is available to the public [syn: {public toilet}, comfort station, public convenience, convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toilet paper
n
  1. a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets [syn: toilet tissue, toilet paper, bathroom tissue]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toilet powder
n
  1. a fine powder for spreading on the body (as after bathing)
    Synonym(s): toilet powder, bath powder, dusting powder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toilet table
n
  1. low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
    Synonym(s): dressing table, dresser, vanity, toilet table
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mocking \Mock"ing\, a.
      Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision;
      mimicking; derisive.
  
      {Mocking bird} (Zo[94]l.), a North American singing bird
            ({Mimus polyglottos}), remarkable for its exact imitations
            of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail
            and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing;
            the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also
            applied to other species of the same genus, found in
            Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.
  
      {Mocking thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any species of the genus
            {Harporhynchus}, as the brown thrush ({H. rufus}).
  
      {Mocking wren} (Zo[94]l.), any American wren of the genus
            {Thryothorus}, esp. {T. Ludovicianus}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Telotype \Tel"o*type\, n. [Gr. [?] far off + -type.]
      An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters
      and not in signs.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boy \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube,
      Icel. bofi rouge.]
      A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence,
      a son.
  
               My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      Note: Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in
               college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used
               colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity,
               or party.
  
      {Boy bishop}, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in
            old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other
            insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies
            in which the bishop usually officiated.
  
      {The Old Boy}, the Devil. [Slang]
  
      {Yellow boys}, guineas. [Slang, Eng.]
  
      {Boy's love}, a popular English name of Southernwood
            ({Artemisia abrotonum}); -- called also {lad's love}.
  
      {Boy's play}, childish amusements; anything trifling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilt \Tilt\, n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS.
      teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw.
      t[84]lt, tj[84]ll, Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.]
      1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. --Denham.
  
      2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
  
      3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning
            extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
  
      {Tilt boat} (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other
            cloth.
  
      {Tilt roof} (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of
            a wagon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilt-up \Tilt"-up`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Same as {Tip-up}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Button \But"ton\, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud,
      prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See {Butt}
      an end.]
      1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  
      2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten
            together the different parts of dress, by being attached
            to one part, and passing through a slit, called a
            buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
  
      3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak.
  
      4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated,
            turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a
            door.
  
      5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a
            crucible, after fusion.
  
      {Button hook}, a hook for catching a button and drawing it
            through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves.
  
      {Button shell} (Zo[94]l.), a small, univalve marine shell of
            the genus {Rotella}.
  
      {Button snakeroot}. (Bot.)
            (a) The American composite genus {Liatris}, having rounded
                  buttonlike heads of flowers.
            (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow
                  leaves, and flowers in dense heads.
  
      {Button tree} (Bot.), a genus of trees ({Conocarpus}),
            furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West
            Indies.
  
      {To hold by the button}, to detain in conversation to
            weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hold \Hold\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Held}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Holding}. {Holden}, p. p., is obs. in elegant writing,
      though still used in legal language.] [OE. haldan, D. houden,
      OHG. hoten, Icel. halda, Dan. holde, Sw. h[86]lla, Goth.
      haldan to feed, tend (the cattle); of unknown origin. Gf.
      {Avast}, {Halt}, {Hod}.]
      1. To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or
            relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent
            from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep
            in the grasp; to retain.
  
                     The loops held one curtain to another. --Ex. xxxvi.
                                                                              12.
  
                     Thy right hand shall hold me.            --Ps. cxxxix.
                                                                              10.
  
                     They all hold swords, being expert in war. --Cant.
                                                                              iii. 8.
  
                     In vain he seeks, that having can not hold.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
                     France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . .
                     . A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in
                     peace that hand which thou dost hold. --Shak.
  
      2. To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or
            authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to
            defend.
  
                     We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of deity or
                     empire.                                             --Milton.
  
      3. To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to
            derive title to; as, to hold office.
  
                     This noble merchant held a noble house. --Chaucer.
  
                     Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute.
                                                                              --Knolles.
  
                     And now the strand, and now the plain, they held.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to
            bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
  
                     We can not hold mortality's strong hand. --Shak.
  
                     Death! what do'st? O,hold thy blow.   --Grashaw.
  
                     He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to
                     hold his tongue.                                 --Macaulay.
  
      5. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute,
            as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to
            sustain.
  
                     Hold not thy peace, and be not still. --Ps. lxxxiii.
                                                                              1.
  
                     Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall
                     hold their course.                              --Milton.
  
      6. To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which
            is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a
            festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring
            about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the
            general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a
            clergyman holds a service.
  
                     I would hold more talk with thee.      --Shak.
  
      7. To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this
            pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain;
            to have capacity or containing power for.
  
                     Broken cisterns that can hold no water. --Jer. ii.
                                                                              13.
  
                     One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      8. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or
            privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to
            sustain.
  
                     Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have
                     been taught.                                       --2 Thes.
                                                                              ii.15.
  
                     But still he held his purpose to depart. --Dryden.
  
      9. To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think;
            to judge.
  
                     I hold him but a fool.                        --Shak.
  
                     I shall never hold that man my friend. --Shak.
  
                     The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his
                     name in vain.                                    --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      10. To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he
            holds his head high.
  
                     Let him hold his fingers thus.         --Shak.
  
      {To hold a wager}, to lay or hazard a wager. --Swift.
  
      {To hold forth}, to offer; to exhibit; to propose; to put
            forward. [bd]The propositions which books hold forth and
            pretend to teach.[b8] --Locke.
  
      {To held in}, to restrain; to curd.
  
      {To hold in hand}, to toy with; to keep in expectation; to
            have in one's power. [Obs.]
  
                     O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods, And
                     hold a lady in hand.                           --Beaw. & Fl.
  
      {To hold in play}, to keep under control; to dally with.
            --Macaulay.
  
      {To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
  
      {To hold on}, to hold in being, continuance or position; as,
            to hold a rider on.
  
      {To hold one's day}, to keep one's appointment. [Obs.]
            --Chaucer.
  
      {To hold one's own}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hold \Hold\, n. i.
      In general, to keep one's self in a given position or
      condition; to remain fixed. Hence:
  
      1. Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.
  
                     And damned be him that first cries, [bd]Hold,
                     enough![b8]                                       --Shak.
  
      2. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to
            remain unbroken or unsubdued.
  
                     Our force by land hath nobly held.      --Shak.
  
      3. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to
            endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.
  
                     While our obedience holds.                  --Milton.
  
                     The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain
            attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.
  
                     He will hold to the one and despise the other.
                                                                              --Matt. vi. 24
  
      5. To restrain one's self; to refrain.
  
                     His dauntless heart would fain have held From
                     weeping, but his eyes rebelled.         --Dryden.
  
      6. To derive right or title; -- generally with of.
  
                     My crown is absolute, and holds of none. --Dryden.
  
                     His imagination holds immediately from nature.
                                                                              --Hazlitt.
  
      {Hold on!} {Hold up!} wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- {To
      hold forth}, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach.
            --L'Estrange.
  
      {To hold in}, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh
            and could hardly hold in.
  
      {To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
  
      {To hold on}, to keep fast hold; to continue; to go on.
            [bd]The trade held on for many years,[b8] --Swift.
  
      {To hold out}, to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain
            one's self; not to yield or give way.
  
      {To hold over}, to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond
            a certain date.
  
      {To hold to [or] with}, to take sides with, as a person or
            opinion.
  
      {To hold together}, to be joined; not to separate; to remain
            in union. --Dryden. --Locke.
  
      {To hold up}.
            (a) To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken;
                  as, to hold up under misfortunes.
            (b) To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up.
                  --Hudibras.
            (c) To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
                  --Collier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hold \Hold\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Held}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Holding}. {Holden}, p. p., is obs. in elegant writing,
      though still used in legal language.] [OE. haldan, D. houden,
      OHG. hoten, Icel. halda, Dan. holde, Sw. h[86]lla, Goth.
      haldan to feed, tend (the cattle); of unknown origin. Gf.
      {Avast}, {Halt}, {Hod}.]
      1. To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or
            relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent
            from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep
            in the grasp; to retain.
  
                     The loops held one curtain to another. --Ex. xxxvi.
                                                                              12.
  
                     Thy right hand shall hold me.            --Ps. cxxxix.
                                                                              10.
  
                     They all hold swords, being expert in war. --Cant.
                                                                              iii. 8.
  
                     In vain he seeks, that having can not hold.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
                     France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . .
                     . A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in
                     peace that hand which thou dost hold. --Shak.
  
      2. To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or
            authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to
            defend.
  
                     We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of deity or
                     empire.                                             --Milton.
  
      3. To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to
            derive title to; as, to hold office.
  
                     This noble merchant held a noble house. --Chaucer.
  
                     Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute.
                                                                              --Knolles.
  
                     And now the strand, and now the plain, they held.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to
            bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
  
                     We can not hold mortality's strong hand. --Shak.
  
                     Death! what do'st? O,hold thy blow.   --Grashaw.
  
                     He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to
                     hold his tongue.                                 --Macaulay.
  
      5. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute,
            as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to
            sustain.
  
                     Hold not thy peace, and be not still. --Ps. lxxxiii.
                                                                              1.
  
                     Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall
                     hold their course.                              --Milton.
  
      6. To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which
            is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a
            festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring
            about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the
            general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a
            clergyman holds a service.
  
                     I would hold more talk with thee.      --Shak.
  
      7. To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this
            pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain;
            to have capacity or containing power for.
  
                     Broken cisterns that can hold no water. --Jer. ii.
                                                                              13.
  
                     One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      8. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or
            privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to
            sustain.
  
                     Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have
                     been taught.                                       --2 Thes.
                                                                              ii.15.
  
                     But still he held his purpose to depart. --Dryden.
  
      9. To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think;
            to judge.
  
                     I hold him but a fool.                        --Shak.
  
                     I shall never hold that man my friend. --Shak.
  
                     The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his
                     name in vain.                                    --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      10. To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he
            holds his head high.
  
                     Let him hold his fingers thus.         --Shak.
  
      {To hold a wager}, to lay or hazard a wager. --Swift.
  
      {To hold forth}, to offer; to exhibit; to propose; to put
            forward. [bd]The propositions which books hold forth and
            pretend to teach.[b8] --Locke.
  
      {To held in}, to restrain; to curd.
  
      {To hold in hand}, to toy with; to keep in expectation; to
            have in one's power. [Obs.]
  
                     O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods, And
                     hold a lady in hand.                           --Beaw. & Fl.
  
      {To hold in play}, to keep under control; to dally with.
            --Macaulay.
  
      {To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
  
      {To hold on}, to hold in being, continuance or position; as,
            to hold a rider on.
  
      {To hold one's day}, to keep one's appointment. [Obs.]
            --Chaucer.
  
      {To hold one's own}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hold \Hold\, n. i.
      In general, to keep one's self in a given position or
      condition; to remain fixed. Hence:
  
      1. Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.
  
                     And damned be him that first cries, [bd]Hold,
                     enough![b8]                                       --Shak.
  
      2. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to
            remain unbroken or unsubdued.
  
                     Our force by land hath nobly held.      --Shak.
  
      3. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to
            endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.
  
                     While our obedience holds.                  --Milton.
  
                     The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain
            attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.
  
                     He will hold to the one and despise the other.
                                                                              --Matt. vi. 24
  
      5. To restrain one's self; to refrain.
  
                     His dauntless heart would fain have held From
                     weeping, but his eyes rebelled.         --Dryden.
  
      6. To derive right or title; -- generally with of.
  
                     My crown is absolute, and holds of none. --Dryden.
  
                     His imagination holds immediately from nature.
                                                                              --Hazlitt.
  
      {Hold on!} {Hold up!} wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- {To
      hold forth}, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach.
            --L'Estrange.
  
      {To hold in}, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh
            and could hardly hold in.
  
      {To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
  
      {To hold on}, to keep fast hold; to continue; to go on.
            [bd]The trade held on for many years,[b8] --Swift.
  
      {To hold out}, to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain
            one's self; not to yield or give way.
  
      {To hold over}, to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond
            a certain date.
  
      {To hold to [or] with}, to take sides with, as a person or
            opinion.
  
      {To hold together}, to be joined; not to separate; to remain
            in union. --Dryden. --Locke.
  
      {To hold up}.
            (a) To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken;
                  as, to hold up under misfortunes.
            (b) To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up.
                  --Hudibras.
            (c) To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
                  --Collier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Opinion \O*pin"ion\, n. [F., from L. opinio. See {Opine}.]
      1. That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on
            probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less
            strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard
            to any point of knowledge or action.
  
                     Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is
                     so far gained by evidence of probability, that it
                     rather inclines to one persussion than to another,
                     yet not without a mixture of incertainty or
                     doubting.                                          --Sir M. Hale.
  
                     I can not put off my opinion so easily. --Shak.
  
      2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons
            or things; estimation.
  
                     I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of
                     people.                                             --Shak.
  
                     Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and
                     claim to the good opinion of his friend. --South.
  
                     However, I have no opinion of those things. --Bacon.
  
      3. Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation;
            fame; public sentiment or esteem. [Obs.]
  
                     Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.   --Shak.
  
                     This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had
                     made such early progress into laborious . . .
                     enterprises.                                       --Milton.
  
      4. Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression;
            opiniativeness; conceitedness. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      5. (Law.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a
            judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially
            called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point
            submitted.
  
      {To be of opinion}, to think; to judge.
  
      {To hold opinion with}, to agree with. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      Syn: Sentiment; notion; persuasion; idea; view; estimation.
               See {Sentiment}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hold \Hold\, n. i.
      In general, to keep one's self in a given position or
      condition; to remain fixed. Hence:
  
      1. Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.
  
                     And damned be him that first cries, [bd]Hold,
                     enough![b8]                                       --Shak.
  
      2. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to
            remain unbroken or unsubdued.
  
                     Our force by land hath nobly held.      --Shak.
  
      3. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to
            endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.
  
                     While our obedience holds.                  --Milton.
  
                     The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain
            attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.
  
                     He will hold to the one and despise the other.
                                                                              --Matt. vi. 24
  
      5. To restrain one's self; to refrain.
  
                     His dauntless heart would fain have held From
                     weeping, but his eyes rebelled.         --Dryden.
  
      6. To derive right or title; -- generally with of.
  
                     My crown is absolute, and holds of none. --Dryden.
  
                     His imagination holds immediately from nature.
                                                                              --Hazlitt.
  
      {Hold on!} {Hold up!} wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- {To
      hold forth}, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach.
            --L'Estrange.
  
      {To hold in}, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh
            and could hardly hold in.
  
      {To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
  
      {To hold on}, to keep fast hold; to continue; to go on.
            [bd]The trade held on for many years,[b8] --Swift.
  
      {To hold out}, to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain
            one's self; not to yield or give way.
  
      {To hold over}, to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond
            a certain date.
  
      {To hold to [or] with}, to take sides with, as a person or
            opinion.
  
      {To hold together}, to be joined; not to separate; to remain
            in union. --Dryden. --Locke.
  
      {To hold up}.
            (a) To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken;
                  as, to hold up under misfortunes.
            (b) To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up.
                  --Hudibras.
            (c) To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
                  --Collier.

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   Hold \Hold\, v. t.
  
      {To hold up}. To stop in order to rob, often with the demand
            to hold up the hands. [Colloq.] Hole \Hole\, n. (Games)
      (a) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which
            a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a
            score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole,
            as in golf.
      (b) (Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor
            of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

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            (a) To keep good one's present condition absolutely or
                  relatively; not to fall off, or to lose ground; as, a
                  ship holds her own when she does not lose ground in a
                  race or chase; a man holds his own when he does not
                  lose strength or weight.
  
      {To hold one's peace}, to keep silence.
  
      {To hold out}.
            (a) To extend; to offer. [bd]Fortune holds out these to
                  you as rewards.[b8] --B. Jonson.
            (b) To continue to do or to suffer; to endure. [bd]He can
                  not long hold out these pangs.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {To hold up}.
            (a) To raise; to lift; as, hold up your head.
            (b) To support; to sustain. [bd]He holds himself up in
                  virtue.[b8]--Sir P. Sidney.
            (c) To exhibit; to display; as, he was held up as an
                  example.
            (d) To rein in; to check; to halt; as, hold up your
                  horses.
  
      {To hold water}.
            (a) Literally, to retain water without leaking; hence
                  (Fig.), to be whole, sound, consistent, without gaps
                  or holes; -- commonly used in a negative sense; as,
                  his statements will not hold water. [Collog.]
            (b) (Naut.) To hold the oars steady in the water, thus
                  checking the headway of a boat.

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   Hold \Hold\, n. i.
      In general, to keep one's self in a given position or
      condition; to remain fixed. Hence:
  
      1. Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.
  
                     And damned be him that first cries, [bd]Hold,
                     enough![b8]                                       --Shak.
  
      2. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to
            remain unbroken or unsubdued.
  
                     Our force by land hath nobly held.      --Shak.
  
      3. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to
            endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.
  
                     While our obedience holds.                  --Milton.
  
                     The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain
            attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.
  
                     He will hold to the one and despise the other.
                                                                              --Matt. vi. 24
  
      5. To restrain one's self; to refrain.
  
                     His dauntless heart would fain have held From
                     weeping, but his eyes rebelled.         --Dryden.
  
      6. To derive right or title; -- generally with of.
  
                     My crown is absolute, and holds of none. --Dryden.
  
                     His imagination holds immediately from nature.
                                                                              --Hazlitt.
  
      {Hold on!} {Hold up!} wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- {To
      hold forth}, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach.
            --L'Estrange.
  
      {To hold in}, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh
            and could hardly hold in.
  
      {To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
  
      {To hold on}, to keep fast hold; to continue; to go on.
            [bd]The trade held on for many years,[b8] --Swift.
  
      {To hold out}, to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain
            one's self; not to yield or give way.
  
      {To hold over}, to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond
            a certain date.
  
      {To hold to [or] with}, to take sides with, as a person or
            opinion.
  
      {To hold together}, to be joined; not to separate; to remain
            in union. --Dryden. --Locke.
  
      {To hold up}.
            (a) To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken;
                  as, to hold up under misfortunes.
            (b) To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up.
                  --Hudibras.
            (c) To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
                  --Collier.

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      {To lay on}, to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on
            blows.
  
      {To lay on load}, to lay on blows; to strike violently. [Obs.
            [or] Archaic]
  
      {To lay one's self out}, to strive earnestly.
  
                     No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself
                     for the good of his country.               --Smalridge.
  
      {To lay one's self open to}, to expose one's self to, as to
            an accusation.
  
      {To lay open}, to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal.
  
      {To lay over}, to spread over; to cover.
  
      {To lay out}.
            (a) To expend. --Macaulay.
            (b) To display; to discover.
            (c) To plan in detail; to arrange; as, to lay out a
                  garden.
            (d) To prepare for burial; as, to lay out a corpse.
            (e) To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength.
  
      {To lay siege to}.
            (a) To besiege; to encompass with an army.
            (b) To beset pertinaciously.
  
      {To lay the course} (Naut.), to sail toward the port intended
            without jibing.
  
      {To lay the land} (Naut.), to cause it to disappear below the
            horizon, by sailing away from it.
  
      {To lay to}
            (a) To charge upon; to impute.
            (b) To apply with vigor.
            (c) To attack or harass. [Obs.] --Knolles.
            (d) (Naut.) To check the motion of (a vessel) and cause
                  it to be stationary.
  
      {To lay to heart}, to feel deeply; to consider earnestly.
  
      {To lay under}, to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or
            restraint.
  
      {To lay unto}.
            (a) Same as {To lay to} (above).
            (b) To put before. --Hos. xi. 4.
  
      {To lay up}.
            (a) To store; to reposit for future use.
            (b) To confine; to disable.
            (c) To dismantle, and retire from active service, as a
                  ship.
  
      {To lay wait for}, to lie in ambush for.
  
      {To lay waste}, to destroy; to make desolate; as, to lay
            waste the land.
  
      Syn: See {Put}, v. t., and the Note under 4th {Lie}.

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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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   Be \Be\, v. i. [imp. {Was}; p. p. {Been}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Being}.] [OE. been, beon, AS. be[a2]n to be, be[a2]m I am;
      akin to OHG. bim, pim, G. bin, I am, Gael. & Ir. bu was, W.
      bod to be, Lith. bu-ti, O. Slav. by-ti, to be, L. fu-i I have
      been, fu-turus about to be, fo-re to be about to be, and perh
      to fieri to become, Gr. [?] to be born, to be, Skr. bh[?] to
      be. This verb is defective, and the parts lacking are
      supplied by verbs from other roots, is, was, which have no
      radical connection with be. The various forms, am, are, is,
      was, were, etc., are considered grammatically as parts of the
      verb [bd]to be[b8], which, with its conjugational forms, is
      often called the substantive verb. [?]97. Cf. {Future},
      {Physic}.]
      1. To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have
            ex[?]stence.
  
                     To be contents his natural desire.      --Pope.
  
                     To be, or not to be: that is the question. --Shak.
  
      2. To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a
            reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the
            subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a
            certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or
            as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words
            for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be
            here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a
            hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five;
            annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the
            man.
  
      3. To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
  
      4. To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
  
                     The field is the world.                     --Matt. xiii.
                                                                              38.
  
                     The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the
                     seven churches.                                 --Rev. i. 20.
  
      Note: The verb to be (including the forms is, was, etc.) is
               used in forming the passive voice of other verbs; as,
               John has been struck by James. It is also used with the
               past participle of many intransitive verbs to express a
               state of the subject. But have is now more commonly
               used as the auxiliary, though expressing a different
               sense; as, [bd]Ye have come too late -- but ye are
               come. [b8] [bd]The minstrel boy to the war is gone.[b8]
               The present and imperfect tenses form, with the
               infinitive, a particular future tense, which expresses
               necessity, duty, or purpose; as, government is to be
               supported; we are to pay our just debts; the deed is to
               be signed to-morrow.
  
      Note: Have or had been, followed by to, implies movement.
               [bd]I have been to Paris.[b8] --Sydney Smith. [bd]Have
               you been to Franchard ?[b8] --R. L. Stevenson.
  
      Note: Been, or ben, was anciently the plural of the
               indicative present. [bd]Ye ben light of the world.[b8]
               --Wyclif, Matt. v. 14. Afterwards be was used, as in
               our Bible: [bd]They that be with us are more than they
               that be with them.[b8] --2 Kings vi. 16. Ben was also
               the old infinitive: [bd]To ben of such power.[b8] --R.
               of Gloucester. Be is used as a form of the present
               subjunctive: [bd]But if it be a question of words and
               names.[b8] --Acts xviii. 15. But the indicative forms,
               is and are, with if, are more commonly used.
  
      {Be it so}, a phrase of supposition, equivalent to suppose it
            to be so; or of permission, signifying let it be so.
            --Shak.
  
      {If so be}, in case.
  
      {To be from}, to have come from; as, from what place are you
            ? I am from Chicago.
  
      {To let be}, to omit, or leave untouched; to let alone.
            [bd]Let be, therefore, my vengeance to dissuade.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
      Syn: {To be}, {Exist}.
  
      Usage: The verb to be, except in a few rare case, like that
                  of Shakespeare's [bd]To be, or not to be[b8], is used
                  simply as a copula, to connect a subject with its
                  predicate; as, man is mortal; the soul is immortal.
                  The verb to exist is never properly used as a mere
                  copula, but points to things that stand forth, or have
                  a substantive being; as, when the soul is freed from
                  all corporeal alliance, then it truly exists. It is
                  not, therefore, properly synonymous with to be when
                  used as a copula, though occasionally made so by some
                  writers for the sake of variety; as in the phrase
                  [bd]there exists [is] no reason for laying new
                  taxes.[b8] We may, indeed, say, [bd]a friendship has
                  long existed between them,[b8] instead of saying,
                  [bd]there has long been a friendship between them;[b8]
                  but in this case, exist is not a mere copula. It is
                  used in its appropriate sense to mark the friendship
                  as having been long in existence.

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   Let \Let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Let} ({Letted}
      (l[ecr]t"t[ecr]d), [Obs].); p. pr. & vb. n. {Letting}.] [OE.
      leten, l[91]ten (past tense lat, let, p. p. laten, leten,
      lete), AS. l[aemac]tan (past tense l[emac]t, p. p.
      l[aemac]ten); akin to OFries. l[emac]ta, OS. l[be]tan, D.
      laten, G. lassen, OHG. l[be]zzan, Icel. l[be]ta, Sw. l[86]ta,
      Dan. lade, Goth. l[emac]tan, and L. lassus weary. The
      original meaning seems to have been, to let loose, let go,
      let drop. Cf. {Alas}, {Late}, {Lassitude}, {Let} to hinder.]
      1. To leave; to relinquish; to abandon. [Obs. or Archaic,
            except when followed by alone or be.]
  
                     He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, But
                     to her mother Nature all her care she lets.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
                     Let me alone in choosing of my wife.   --Chaucer.
  
      2. To consider; to think; to esteem. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      3. To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the
            active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e.,
            cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
            [Obs.]
  
                     This irous, cursed wretch Let this knight's son anon
                     before him fetch.                              --Chaucer.
  
                     He . . . thus let do slay hem all three. --Chaucer.
  
                     Anon he let two coffers make.            --Gower.
  
      4. To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively,
            by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain
            or prevent.
  
      Note: In this sense, when followed by an infinitive, the
               latter is commonly without the sign to; as to let us
               walk, i. e., to permit or suffer us to walk. Sometimes
               there is entire omission of the verb; as, to let [to be
               or to go] loose.
  
                        Pharaoh said, I will let you go.   --Ex. viii.
                                                                              28.
  
                        If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it
                        is.                                                --Shak.
  
      5. To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to
            lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let
            a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
  
      6. To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or
            contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a
            bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
  
      Note: The active form of the infinitive of let, as of many
               other English verbs, is often used in a passive sense;
               as, a house to let (i. e., for letting, or to be let).
               This form of expression conforms to the use of the
               Anglo-Saxon gerund with to (dative infinitive) which
               was commonly so employed. See {Gerund}, 2. [bd] Your
               elegant house in Harley Street is to let.[b8]
               --Thackeray. In the imperative mood, before the first
               person plural, let has a hortative force. [bd] Rise up,
               let us go.[b8] --Mark xiv. 42. [bd] Let us seek out
               some desolate shade.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {To let alone}, to leave; to withdraw from; to refrain from
            interfering with.
  
      {To let blood}, to cause blood to flow; to bleed.
  
      {To let down}.
            (a) To lower.
            (b) To soften in tempering; as, to let down tools,
                  cutlery, and the like.

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   Blood \Blood\, n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[?]d; akin to D.
      bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth, bl[?][?], Sw. & Dan. blod;
      prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See {Blow} to
      bloom.]
      1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
            system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
            the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
            See under {Arterial}.
  
      Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
               minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the
               invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
               and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
               vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some
               colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
               give the blood its uniformly red color. See
               {Corpuscle}, {Plasma}.
  
      2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
            consanguinity; kinship.
  
                     To share the blood of Saxon royalty.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
                     A friend of our own blood.                  --Waller.
  
      {Half blood} (Law), relationship through only one parent.
  
      {Whole blood}, relationship through both father and mother.
            In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
            blood. --Bouvier. --Peters.
  
      3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
            royal lineage.
  
                     Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak.
  
                     I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak.
  
      4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed;
            excellence or purity of breed.
  
      Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
               half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or
               warm blood, is the same as blood.
  
      5. The fleshy nature of man.
  
                     Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak.
  
      6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
            manslaughter; destruction.
  
                     So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for
                     blood atones.                                    --Hood.
  
      7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
  
                     He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was
                     timed with dying cries.                     --Shak.
  
      8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
            if the blood were the seat of emotions.
  
                     When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
               or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in
               cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
               sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
               anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
               irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the
               passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
               is signified; as, my blood was up.
  
      9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
            a rake.
  
                     Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
                     the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
                                                                              --Thackeray.
  
      10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
  
                     He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
                                                                              --Gen. xiix.
                                                                              11.
  
      Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
               part of self-explaining compound words; as,
               blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
               blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
               blood-warm, blood-won.
  
      {Blood baptism} (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had
            not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in
            blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
            literal baptism.
  
      {Blood blister}, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
            serum, usually caused by an injury.
  
      {Blood brother}, brother by blood or birth.
  
      {Blood clam} (Zo[94]l.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca
            and allied genera, esp. {Argina pexata} of the American
            coast. So named from the color of its flesh.
  
      {Blood corpuscle}. See {Corpuscle}.
  
      {Blood crystal} (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the
            separation in a crystalline form of the h[91]moglobin of
            the red blood corpuscles; h[91]matocrystallin. All blood
            does not yield blood crystals.
  
      {Blood heat}, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
            or about 98[ab] [deg] Fahr.
  
      {Blood horse}, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
            the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
  
      {Blood money}. See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Blood orange}, an orange with dark red pulp.
  
      {Blood poisoning} (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused
            by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
            without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
            produced in the body itself; tox[91]mia.
  
      {Blood pudding}, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
           
  
      {Blood relation}, one connected by blood or descent.
  
      {Blood spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
  
      {Blood vessel}. See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Blue blood}, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
            which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
            blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
            family.
  
      {Flesh and blood}.
            (a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
            (b) Human nature.
  
      {In blood} (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
            --Shak.
  
      {To let blood}. See under {Let}.
  
      {Prince of the blood}, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
            of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the
            sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
            daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
            royal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[umac]); p. p.
      {Flown} (fl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen,
      fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[a2]gan; akin to D. vliegen,
      OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[umac]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan.
      flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about,
      and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf.
      {Fledge}, {Flight}, {Flock} of animals.]
      1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
  
      2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass
            or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
  
      3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
  
                     Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
                                                                              --Job v. 7.
  
      4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate
            rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around;
            rumor flies.
  
                     Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on.
                                                                              --Bryant.
  
      5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an
            enemy or a coward flies. See Note under {Flee}.
  
                     Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight.   --Milton.
  
                     Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ? --Shak.
  
      6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly
            or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door
            flies open; a bomb flies apart.
  
      {To fly about} (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time;
            -- said of the wind.
  
      {To fly around}, to move about in haste. [Colloq.]
  
      {To fly at}, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack
            suddenly.
  
      {To fly in the face of}, to insult; to assail; to set at
            defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct
            opposition to; to resist.
  
      {To fly off}, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to
            revolt.
  
      {To fly on}, to attack.
  
      {To fly open}, to open suddenly, or with violence.
  
      {To fly out}.
            (a) To rush out.
            (b) To burst into a passion; to break out into license.
  
      {To let fly}.
            (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. [bd]A
                  man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.[b8]
                  --Addison.
            (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let
                  fly the sheets.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {To let} {drive [or] fly}, to discharge with violence, as a
            blow, an arrow, or stone. See under {Drive}, and {Fly}.
  
      {To let in} [or] into.
            (a) To permit or suffer to enter; to admit.
            (b) To insert, or imbed, as a piece of wood, in a recess
                  formed in a surface for the purpose. {To let loose},
            to remove restraint from; to permit to wander at large.
  
      {To let off.}
            (a) To discharge; to let fly, as an arrow; to fire the
                  charge of, as a gun.
            (b) To release, as from an engagement or obligation.
                  [Colloq.]
  
      {To let out}.
            (a) To allow to go forth; as, to let out a prisoner.
            (b) To extend or loosen, as the folds of a garment; to
                  enlarge; to suffer to run out, as a cord.
            (c) To lease; to give out for performance by contract, as
                  a job.
            (d) To divulge.
  
      {To let slide}, to let go; to cease to care for. [Colloq.]
            [bd] Let the world slide.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Farming}.]
      1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to
            yield the use of to proceeds.
  
                     We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.
  
      2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the
            revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a
            percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
  
                     To farm their subjects and their duties toward
                     these.                                                --Burke.
  
      3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
  
      4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to
            till, as a farm.
  
      {To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Let \Let\, v. i.
      1. To forbear. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
      2. To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year.
            See note under {Let}, v. t.
  
      {To let on}, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low]
           
  
      {To let up}, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease;
            as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yield \Yield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yielded}; obs. p. p. {Yold};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Yielding}.] [OE. yelden, [f4]elden,
      [f4]ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make
      an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to
      cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore,
      make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up,
      Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g[84]lla to be worth, g[84]lda
      to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st {Geld},
      {Guild}.]
      1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as
            payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to
            pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
  
                     To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. --Chaucer.
  
                     When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
                     henceforth yield unto thee her strength. --Gen. iv.
                                                                              12.
  
      2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. [bd]Vines
            yield nectar.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     [He] makes milch kine yield blood.      --Shak.
  
                     The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their
                     children.                                          --Job xxiv. 5.
  
      3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to
            make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to
            surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
  
                     And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
  
                     I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. --Milton.
  
      5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
  
      6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
                     Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the
                     gods yield you for 't.                        --Shak.
  
                     God yield thee, and God thank ye.      --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {To yield the breath}, {the ghost}, [or] {the life}, to die;
            to expire; -- often followed by up.
  
                     One calmly yields his willing breath. --Keble.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toilet \Toi"let\, n. [F. toilette, dim. of toile cloth. See
      {Toil} a net.]
      1. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a
            table in a chamber or a dressing room.
  
      2. A dressing table. --Pope.
  
      3. Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in
            dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.
            [Written also {toilette}.]
  
      {Toilet glass}, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a
            dressing room.
  
      {Toilet service}, {Toilet set}, earthenware, glass, and other
            utensils for a dressing room.
  
      {Toilet table}, a dressing table; a toilet. See def. 2 above.
           
  
      {To snake one's toilet}, to dress one's self; especially, to
            dress one's self carefully.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Willow \Wil"low\, n. [OE. wilowe, wilwe, AS. wilig, welig; akin
      to OD. wilge, D. wilg, LG. wilge. Cf. {Willy}.]
      1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Salix}, including
            many species, most of which are characterized often used
            as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. [bd]A
            wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight.[b8] --Sir W.
            Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the
            person beloved, is said to wear the willow.
  
                     And I must wear the willow garland For him that's
                     dead or false to me.                           --Campbell.
  
      2. (Textile Manuf.) A machine in which cotton or wool is
            opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes
            projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded
            with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having
            been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods,
            though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the
            winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called
            also {willy}, {twilly}, {twilly devil}, and {devil}.
  
      {Almond willow}, {Pussy willow}, {Weeping willow}. (Bot.) See
            under {Almond}, {Pussy}, and {Weeping}.
  
      {Willow biter} (Zo[94]l.) the blue tit. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Willow fly} (Zo[94]l.), a greenish European stone fly
            ({Chloroperla viridis}); -- called also {yellow Sally}.
  
      {Willow gall} (Zo[94]l.), a conical, scaly gall produced on
            willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly ({Cecidomyia
            strobiloides}).
  
      {Willow grouse} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. See
            {ptarmigan}.
  
      {Willow lark} (Zo[94]l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Willow ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting.
                  See under {Reed}.
            (b) A sparrow ({Passer salicicolus}) native of Asia,
                  Africa, and Southern Europe.
  
      {Willow tea}, the prepared leaves of a species of willow
            largely grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, extensively
            used by the poorer classes of Chinese as a substitute for
            tea. --McElrath.
  
      {Willow thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a variety of the veery, or
            Wilson's thrush. See {Veery}.
  
      {Willow warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a very small European warbler
            ({Phylloscopus trochilus}); -- called also {bee bird},
            {haybird}, {golden wren}, {pettychaps}, {sweet William},
            {Tom Thumb}, and {willow wren}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Twilly \Twil"ly\, n. [C. {Willy}.]
      A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a
      revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a
      willy or willying machine; -- called also {twilly devil}, and
      {devil}. See {Devil}, n., 6, and {Willy}. --Tomlinson.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Tillatoba, MS (village, FIPS 73440)
      Location: 33.98495 N, 89.89573 W
      Population (1990): 124 (48 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 38961

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Teletype
  
      ({tty}) A trademark for a hard-copy
      {teletypewriter} produced by {Teletype Corporation}.
  
      (2000-04-02)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   teletype
  
      {teletypewriter}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Teletype
  
      ({tty}) A trademark for a hard-copy
      {teletypewriter} produced by {Teletype Corporation}.
  
      (2000-04-02)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   teletype
  
      {teletypewriter}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Teletype Corporation
  
      The company which made {Teletype} {teletypewriters}.
  
      Address: Skokie, Illinois, USA.
  
      (2000-04-03)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   teletypewriter
  
      (Nearly always abbreviated to "teletype" or
      "{tty}") An obsolete kind of {terminal}, with a noisy
      mechanical {printer} for output, a very limited {character
      set}, and poor print quality.
  
      See also {bit-paired keyboard}.
  
      (2000-04-02)
  
  
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