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   T. S. Eliot
         n 1: British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel
               prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of
               modern verse drama (1888-1965) [syn: {Eliot}, {T. S.
               Eliot}, {Thomas Stearns Eliot}]

English Dictionary: thick-skulled by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tachylite
n
  1. a basic or basalt glass
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tagliatelle
n
  1. pasta cut in narrow ribbons
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take hold
v
  1. assume control [syn: take hold, take charge, {take control}]
  2. have or hold in one's hands or grip; "Hold this bowl for a moment, please"; "A crazy idea took hold of him"
    Synonym(s): hold, take hold
    Antonym(s): let go, let go of, release, relinquish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take hold of
v
  1. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!"
    Synonym(s): catch, grab, take hold of
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tasseled
adj
  1. fringed or adorned with tassels [syn: tasseled, tasselled]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tasselled
adj
  1. fringed or adorned with tassels [syn: tasseled, tasselled]
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tax shelter
n
  1. a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
    Synonym(s): tax shelter, shelter
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tea cloth
n
  1. a small tablecloth
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tessellate
v
  1. fit together exactly, of identical shapes; "triangles tessellate"
  2. tile with tesserae; "tessellate the kitchen floor"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tessellated
adj
  1. having a checkered or mottled appearance
  2. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic; "a tessellated pavement"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tessellation
n
  1. the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a tessellation of hexagons"
  2. the act of adorning with mosaic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thick-skulled
adj
  1. (used informally) stupid [syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed]
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tousled
adj
  1. in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
    Synonym(s): disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toy soldier
n
  1. a doll that resembles a soldier
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quail \Quail\, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia,
      qualea, of Dutch or German origin; cf. D. kwakkel, kwartel,
      OHG. wahtala, G. wachtel.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to {Coturnix}
            and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the
            common European quail ({C. communis}), the rain quail ({C.
            Coromandelica}) of India, the stubble quail ({C.
            pectoralis}), and the Australian swamp quail ({Synoicus
            australis}).
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several American partridges
            belonging to {Colinus}, {Callipepla}, and allied genera,
            especially the bobwhite (called {Virginia quail}, and
            {Maryland quail}), and the California quail ({Calipepla
            Californica}).
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and
            allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian
            painted quail ({Turnix varius}). See {Turnix}.
  
      4. A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought
            to be a very amorous bird.[Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {Bustard quail} (Zo[94]l.), a small Asiatic quail-like bird
            of the genus Turnix, as {T. taigoor}, a black-breasted
            species, and the hill bustard quail ({T. ocellatus}). See
            {Turnix}.
  
      {Button quail} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small Asiatic
            species of Turnix, as {T. Sykesii}, which is said to be
            the smallest game bird of India.
  
      {Mountain quail}. See under {Mountain}.
  
      {Quail call}, a call or pipe for alluring quails into a net
            or within range.
  
      {Quail dove} {(Zo[94]l.)}, any one of several American ground
            pigeons belonging to {Geotrygon} and allied genera.
  
      {Quail hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the New Zealand sparrow hawk
            ({Hieracidea Nov[91]-Hollandi[91]}).
  
      {Quail pipe}. See {Quail call}, above.
  
      {Quail snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the dowitcher, or red-breasted
            snipe; -- called also {robin snipe}, and {brown snipe}.
  
      {Sea quail} (Zo[94]l.), the turnstone. [Local, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tattler \Tat"tler\, n.
      1. One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
            --Jer. Taylor.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of large,
            long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus {Totanus}.
  
      Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or
               telltale ({T. melanoleucus}), the smaller tattler, or
               lesser yellowlegs ({T. flavipes}), the solitary tattler
               ({T. solitarius}), and the semipalmated tattler, or
               willet. The first two are called also {telltale},
               {telltale spine}, {telltale tattler}, {yellowlegs},
               {yellowshanks}, and {yelper.}

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachylyte \Tach"y*lyte\, n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + [?] to
      dissolve.] (Min.)
      A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable
      by acids and readily fusible.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tackle \Tac"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tackled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tackling}.] [Cf. LG. takeln to equip. See {Tackle}, n.]
      1. To supply with tackle. --Beau. & Fl.
  
      2. To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to
            tackle a horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]
  
      3. To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler
            tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
  
                     The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time
                     and strength in tackling windmills under conditions
                     the most fitted to insure her defeat. --Dublin Univ.
                                                                              Mag.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tackled \Tac"kled\, a.
      Made of ropes tacked together.
  
               My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made
               like a tackled stair.                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taglet \Tag"let\, n.
      A little tag.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taslet \Tas"let\, n. [See {Tasse} a piece of armor.]
      A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tassel \Tas"sel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tasseled}or {Tasselled};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Tasseling} or {Tasselling}.]
      To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tassel \Tas"sel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tasseled}or {Tasselled};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Tasseling} or {Tasselling}.]
      To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teasel \Tea"sel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Teaseled}or {Teaselled};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Teaseling} or {Teaselling}.]
      To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any
      substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teasel \Tea"sel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Teaseled}or {Teaselled};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Teaseling} or {Teaselling}.]
      To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any
      substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tegulated \Teg`u*la"ted\, a.
      Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping
      like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. --Fairholt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tesla coil \Tes"la coil\, Tesla transformer \Tes"la
   trans*form"er\ [After N. Tesla, American electrician.] (Elec.)
      A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or
      oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tessellated}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Tessellating}.] [L. tessellatus tessellated.
      See {Tessellar}.]
      To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
  
               The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the
               fashion of France.                                 --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, a. [L. tesselatus.]
      Tessellated.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tessellated}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Tessellating}.] [L. tessellatus tessellated.
      See {Tessellar}.]
      To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
  
               The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the
               fashion of France.                                 --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tessellated \Tes"sel*la`ted\, a.
      1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a
            tessellated pavement.
  
      2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a
            tessellated leaf.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tessellated}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Tessellating}.] [L. tessellatus tessellated.
      See {Tessellar}.]
      To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
  
               The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the
               fashion of France.                                 --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tessellation \Tes`sel*la"tion\, n.
      The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
      --J. Forsyth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bull \Bull\, n. [OE. bulle, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud, knob,
      LL., a seal or stamp: cf. F. bulle. Cf. {Bull} a writing,
      {Bowl} a ball, {Boil}, v. i.]
      1. A seal. See {Bulla}.
  
      2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in
            Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla,
            and dated [bd]a die Incarnationis,[b8] i. e., [bd]from the
            day of the Incarnation.[b8] See Apostolical brief, under
            {Brief}.
  
                     A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible
                     the court of Rome was in the point of abuses.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
      3. A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity,
            but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of
            expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent
            incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's
            bulls and his professions of humility.
  
                     And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman
                     Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the
                     pope's bulls, as if he should say universal
                     particular; a Catholic schimatic.      --Milton.
  
      {The Golden Bull}, an edict or imperial constitution made by
            the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the
            fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from
            its golden seal.
  
      Syn: See {Blunder}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quality \Qual"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Qualities}. [F. qualit[82], L.
      qualitas, fr. qualis how constituted, as; akin to E. which.
      See {Which}.]
      1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as
            distinguished from others; nature or character relatively
            considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
  
                     We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with
                     many of the city not of the meanest quality. --Bacon
  
      2. Special or temporary character; profession; occupation;
            assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
  
                     I made that inquiry in quality of an antiquary.
                                                                              --Gray.
  
      3. That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it
            is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it;
            distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute;
            peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait;
            as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in
            quality; the great quality of a statesman.
  
      Note: Qualities, in metaphysics, are primary or secondary.
               Primary are those essential to the existence, and even
               the conception, of the thing, as of matter or spirit
               Secondary are those not essential to such a conception.
  
      4. An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.
  
                     He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and
                     fencing which accompany a good breeding.
                                                                              --Clarendon.
  
      5. Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.
            [bd]Persons of quality.[b8] --Bacon.
  
      {Quality binding}, a kind of worsted tape used in Scotland
            for binding carpets, and the like.
  
      {The quality}, those of high rank or station, as
            distinguished from {the masses}, or common people; the
            nobility; the gentry.
  
                     I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my
                     feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they
                     will look in their traveling habits.   --Addison.
  
      Syn: Property; attribute; nature; peculiarity; character;
               sort; rank; disposition; temper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thick-skulled \Thick"-skulled`\, a.
      Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to
      learn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tickled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tickling}.] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf.
      also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG.
      chizzil[d3]n, chuzzil[d3]n, Icel. kitla. Cf. {Kittle}, v. t.]
      1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling
            sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of
            spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
  
                     If you tickle us, do we not laugh?      --Shak.
  
      2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
  
                     Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope.
  
                     Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains
                     the shadow Which he treads on at noon. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
            designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
            religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
            as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
            as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
            designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
            religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
            as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
            as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\, v. i.
      1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --
            sometimes with to.
  
                     You must call to the nurse.               --Shak.
  
                     The angel of God called to Hagar.      --Gen. xxi.
                                                                              17.
  
      2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
  
                     They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
                                                                              --Bunyan.
  
      3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place
            designated, as for orders.
  
                     He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
                                                                              --Temple.
  
      {To call for}
            (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for
                  punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the
                  metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which
                  it describes.
            (b) To give an order for; to request. [bd]Whenever the
                  coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale.[b8]
                  --Marryat.
  
      {To call on}, {To call upon},
            (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend.
            (b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to
                  call upon a person to make a speech.
            (c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.
            (d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon
                  God.
  
      {To call out} To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
            (b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a
                  record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  
                           The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the
                           petitions, answers, and transactions in
                           Parliament, are extant.               --Sir M. Hale.
  
                           The roll and list of that army doth remain.
                                                                              --Sir J.
                                                                              Davies.
            (c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as,
                  a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
            (d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  
      4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled
            or doubled upon itself.
  
      5. (Naut.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to
            side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise
            and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
  
      6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or
            of thunder.
  
      7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as
            scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  
      8. Part; office; duty; r[93]le. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
  
      {Long roll} (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the
            signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to
            arrange themselves in line.
  
      {Master of the rolls}. See under {Master}.
  
      {Roll call}, the act, or the time, of calling over a list
            names, as among soldiers.
  
      {Rolls of court}, {of parliament} (or of any public body),
            the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings
            of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and
            which constitute the records of such public body.
  
      {To call the roll}, to call off or recite a list or roll of
            names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to
            ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from
            those present.
  
      Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See
               {List}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
            designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
            religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
            as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
            as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
            designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
            religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
            as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
            as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
            designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
            religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
            as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
            as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
            designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
            religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
            as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
            as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clew \Clew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. & vb. n. {Clewing}.] [Cf. D.
      kluwenen. See {Clew}, n.]
      1. To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.]
  
                     Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. --Beau.
                                                                              && Fl.
  
      2. (Naut.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the
            clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews
            of a square sail to the yard.
  
      {To clew down} (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on
            the clew lines.
  
      {To clew up} (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for
            furling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heel \Heel\, n. [OE. hele, heele, AS. h[emac]la, perh. for
      h[omac]hila, fr. AS. h[omac]h heel (cf. {Hough}); but cf. D.
      hiel, OFries. heila, h[emac]la, Icel. h[91]ll, Dan. h[91]l,
      Sw. h[84]l, and L. calx. [root]12. Cf. {Inculcate}.]
      1. The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; --
            in man or quadrupeds.
  
                     He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then
                     his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head.
                                                                              --Denham.
  
      2. The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a
            shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting
            downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or
            shoe.
  
      3. The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or
            concluding part. [bd]The heel of a hunt.[b8] --A.
            Trollope. [bd]The heel of the white loaf.[b8] --Sir W.
            Scott.
  
      4. Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a
            protuberance; a knob.
  
      5. The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human
            heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests;
            especially:
            (a) (Naut.) The after end of a ship's keel.
            (b) (Naut.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit,
                  the sternpost, etc.
            (c) (Mil.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is
                  upwards in the firing position.
            (d) (Mil.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword,
                  next to the hilt.
            (e) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the
                  heel of a scythe.
  
      6. (Man.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred
            heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
  
      7. (Arch.)
            (a) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or
                  rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse
                  angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
            (b) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen. --Gwilt.
  
      {Heel chain} (Naut.), a chain passing from the bowsprit cap
            around the heel of the jib boom.
  
      {Heel plate}, the butt plate of a gun.
  
      {Heel of a rafter}. (Arch.) See {Heel}, n., 7.
  
      {Heel ring}, a ring for fastening a scythe blade to the
            snath.
  
      {Neck and heels}, the whole body. (Colloq.)
  
      {To be at the heels of}, to pursue closely; to follow hard;
            as, hungry want is at my heels. --Otway.
  
      {To be down at the heel}, to be slovenly or in a poor plight.
           
  
      {To be out at the heels}, to have on stockings that are worn
            out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. --Shak.
  
      {To cool the heels}. See under {Cool}.
  
      {To go heels over head}, to turn over so as to bring the
            heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or
            rash, manner.
  
      {To have the heels of}, to outrun.
  
      {To lay by the heels}, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison.
            --Shak. --Addison.
  
      {To show the heels}, to flee; to run from.
  
      {To take to the heels}, to flee; to betake to flight.
  
      {To throw up another's heels}, to trip him. --Bunyan.
  
      {To tread upon one's heels}, to follow closely. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cool \Cool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Cooling}.]
      1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as,
            ice cools water.
  
                     Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger
                     in water, and cool my tongue.            --Luke xvi.
                                                                              24.
  
      2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as
            passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
  
                     We have reason to cool our raging motions, our
                     carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.      --Shak.
  
      {To cool the heels}, to dance attendance; to wait, as for
            admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glut \Glut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glutted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Glutting}.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L.
      glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. [?] to eat, Skr. gar. Cf.
      {Gluttion}, {Englut}.]
      1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
  
                     Though every drop of water swear against it, And
                     gape at widest to glut him.               --Shak.
  
      2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving
            of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
  
                     His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from
                     his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden.
  
                     The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to
                     glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded
                     populace.                                          --C. Kingsley.
  
      {To glut the market}, to furnish an oversupply of any article
            of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kill \Kill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Killed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Killing}.] [OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill, strike;
      perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf.
      {Quell}), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the
      head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to
      kill with the ax.]
      1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or
            by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to
            slay.
  
                     Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words !
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill
            the sale of a book. [bd]To kill thine honor.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares. --Shak.
  
      3. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in
            seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
  
                     Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see,
                     is killed in him.                              --Shak.
  
      4. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize;
            as, alkali kills acid.
  
      {To kill time}, to busy one's self with something which
            occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without
            tediousness.
  
      Syn: To murder; assassinate; slay; butcher; destroy. -- To
               {Kill}, {Murder}, {Assassinate}. To kill does not
               necessarily mean any more than to deprive of life. A man
               may kill another by accident or in self-defense, without
               the imputation of guilt. To murder is to kill with
               malicious forethought and intention. To assassinate is
               tomurder suddenly and by stealth. The sheriff may kill
               without murdering; the duelist murders, but does not
               assassinate his antagonist; the assassin kills and
               murders.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Time bill}. Same as {Time-table}. [Eng.]
  
      {Time book}, a book in which is kept a record of the time
            persons have worked.
  
      {Time detector}, a timepiece provided with a device for
            registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman
            visits certain stations in his beat.
  
      {Time enough}, in season; early enough. [bd]Stanly at
            Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his
            life.[b8] --Bacon.
  
      {Time fuse}, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which
            can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain
            definite interval after being itself ignited.
  
      {Time immemorial}, [or] {Time out of mind}. (Eng. Law) See
            under {Immemorial}.
  
      {Time lock}, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when
            wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when
            locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
  
      {Time of day}, salutation appropriate to the times of the
            day, as [bd]good morning,[b8] [bd]good evening,[b8] and
            the like; greeting.
  
      {To kill time}. See under {Kill}, v. t.
  
      {To make time}.
            (a) To gain time.
            (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something;
                  as, the trotting horse made fast time.
  
      {To move}, {run}, [or] {go}, {against time}, to move, run, or
            go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest
            possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance
            which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is
            to run against time.
  
      {True time}.
            (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly.
            (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit
                  of the sun's center over the meridian.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Salted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Salting}.]
      1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve
            with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt
            fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
  
      2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a
            ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  
      {To salt a mine}, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in
            order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]
  
      {To salt away}, {To salt down}, to prepare with, or pack in,
            salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence,
            colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Salted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Salting}.]
      1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve
            with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt
            fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
  
      2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a
            ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  
      {To salt a mine}, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in
            order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]
  
      {To salt away}, {To salt down}, to prepare with, or pack in,
            salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence,
            colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Salted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Salting}.]
      1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve
            with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt
            fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
  
      2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a
            ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  
      {To salt a mine}, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in
            order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]
  
      {To salt away}, {To salt down}, to prepare with, or pack in,
            salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence,
            colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sell \Sell\, v. i.
      1. To practice selling commodities.
  
                     I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will
                     not eat with you.                              --Shak.
  
      2. To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
  
      {To sell out}, to sell one's whole stockk in trade or one's
            entire interest in a property or a business.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shell \Shell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shelled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shelling}.]
      1. To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the
            shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell
            oysters.
  
      2. To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat,
            oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
  
      3. To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to
            shell a town.
  
      {To shell out}, to distribute freely; to bring out or pay, as
            money. [Colloq.]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   tcl-debug
  
      A debugger for {Tcl} by Don Libes that
      can be easily embedded in other applications.   It is included
      with many other Tcl libraries.
  
      {(ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/tcl-debug.tar.Z)}.
  
      (1994-10-31)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Tcl-DP
  
      Tcl-DP extends {Tcl}'s "send" by removing the restriction that
      you can only send to other clients of the same X11 server.
      Version 3.0 library by Larry Rowe.
  
      {(ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/Tcl-DP)}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   tclhttpd
  
      An {embeddable} {Tcl}-based {web server}.
  
      [Details?]
  
      (1998-11-27)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   TCOL.Ada
  
      CMU, 1980.   An intermediate representation for Ada, was merged
      with AIDA to form Diana.   "TCOL.Ada: Revised Report on an
      Intermediate Representation for the DOD Standard Programming
      Language", J.M. Newcomer et al, CMU-CS-79-128 (June 1979).
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Tiglath-Pileser I.
      (not mentioned in Scripture) was the most famous of the monarchs
      of the first Assyrian empire (about B.C. 1110). After his death,
      for two hundred years the empire fell into decay. The history of
      David and Solomon falls within this period. He was succeeded by
      his son, Shalmaneser II.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Tiglath-Pileser III.
      or Tilgath-Pil-neser, the Assyrian throne-name of Pul (q.v.). He
      appears in the Assyrian records as gaining, in the fifth year of
      his reign (about B.C. 741), a victory over Azariah (= Uzziah in
      2 Chr.26:1), king of Judah, whose achievements are described in
      2 Chr. 26:6-15. He is first mentioned in Scripture, however, as
      gaining a victory over Pekah, king of Israel, and Rezin of
      Damascus, who were confederates. He put Rezin to death, and
      punished Pekah by taking a considerable portion of his kingdom,
      and carrying off (B.C. 734) a vast number of its inhabitants
      into captivity (2 Kings 15:29; 16:5-9; 1 Chr. 5:6, 26), the
      Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh whom he
      settled in Gozan. In the Assyrian annals it is further related
      that, before he returned from Syria, he held a court at
      Damascus, and received submission and tribute from the
      neighbouring kings, among whom were Pekah of Samaria and
      "Yahu-khazi [i.e., Ahaz], king of Judah" (comp. 2 Kings
      16:10-16).
     
         He was the founder of what is called "the second Assyrian
      empire," an empire meant to embrace the whole world, the centre
      of which should be Nineveh. He died B.C. 728, and was succeeded
      by a general of his army, Ulula, who assumed the name
      Shalmaneser IV.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Tiglath-pileser, that binds or takes away captivity
  
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