tap dance
         n 1: a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet [syn: {tap
               dancing}, {tap dance}]
         v 1: perform a tap dance

English Dictionary: Tibetan terrier	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tap dancer n a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes Synonym(s): tap dancer, tapper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tap dancing n a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet [syn: {tap dancing}, tap dance]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tapdance v dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes; "Glover tapdances better than anybody" Synonym(s): tapdance, tap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tapotement n massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis
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Teapot Dome n a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration Synonym(s): Teapot Dome, Teapot Dome scandal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Teapot Dome scandal n a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration Synonym(s): Teapot Dome, Teapot Dome scandal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tepidness n a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin [syn: lukewarmness, tepidity, tepidness] lack of passion, force or animation Synonym(s): tepidness, lukewarmness
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Thevetia neriifolia n tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers; all parts highly poisonous Synonym(s): yellow oleander, Thevetia peruviana, Thevetia neriifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tibetan adj of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language; "Tibetan monks" n Himalayish language spoken in Tibet a native or inhabitant of Tibet
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Tibetan Buddhism n a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism Synonym(s): Lamaism, Tibetan Buddhism
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Tibetan mastiff n very large powerful rough-coated dog native to central Asia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tibetan terrier n breed of medium-sized terriers bred in Tibet resembling Old English sheepdogs with fluffy curled tails Synonym(s): Tibetan terrier, chrysanthemum dog
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top-down adj of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details; "a top- down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends"; "top-down programming" Antonym(s): bottom-up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tub-thumper n a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
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TV audience n the audience reached by television [syn: {viewing audience}, TV audience, viewers]
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TV dinner n a meal that is prepared in advance and frozen; can be heated and served
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Typhoid Mary n United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938) Synonym(s): Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tabid \Tab"id\, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See {Tabes}.]       (Med.)       Affected by tabes; tabetic.                   In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.       -- {Tab"id*ly}, adv. -- {Tab"id*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tappet \Tap"pet\, n. (Mach.)       A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or       intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to       produce change or regulate motion. --G. Francis.          {Tappet motion}, a valve motion worked by tappets from a             reciprocating part, without an eccentric or cam, -- used             in steam pumps, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tappit hen \Tap"pit hen`\       1. A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.]             --Jamieson.          2. A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some,             three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid,             thought to resemble a crested hen. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tepid \Tep"id\, a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to       Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.]       Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays;       tepid vapors. -- {Tep"id*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thibetan \Thib"e*tan\, a.       Of or pertaining to Thibet. -- n. A native or inhabitant of       Thibet.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus             Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of             wheels, and for other purposes.          {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.                      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show             the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.          {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees             of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.             concolor}.          {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under             {Ruffed}. [Canada]          {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.          {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.          {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.          {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})             with greenish-white pale[91].          {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The white ptarmigan.             (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]          {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other             allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and             other plants, and often do much damage.          {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under             {Squirrel}.          {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.          {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become             incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which             they emit.          {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}             ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.          {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as             distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.          {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]          {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.          {The White House}. See under {House}.          {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})             having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the             wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and             the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.                      {White iron}.             (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.             (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large                   proportion of combined carbon.          {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.          {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,             but blackish after rain. [Eng.]          {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.          {White lead}.             (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for                   other purposes; ceruse.             (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.          {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and             salt.          {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.          {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under             {Rattlesnake}.          {White lie}. See under {Lie}.          {White light}.             (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the                   same proportion as in the light coming directly from                   the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing                   through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.             (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white                   illumination for signals, etc.          {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for             whitewashing; whitewash.          {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,             on a printed page; a blank line.          {White meat}.             (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.             (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.                               Driving their cattle continually with them, and                            feeding only upon their milk and white meats.                                                                               --Spenser.          {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.          {White metal}.             (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,                   etc.             (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a                   certain stage in copper smelting.          {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The common clothes moth.             (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma                   Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black                   spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin                   moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.          {White money}, silver money.          {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common             mouse.          {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})             ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --             called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.          {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white             crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its             head, which give the appearance of a hood.          {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.          {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The snowy owl.             (b) The barn owl.          {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.          {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})                   valued as a food fish.             (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.             (c) Any California surf fish.          {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.          {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often             cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.          {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.                      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to             exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.             [Obs.]                         A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.          {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.          {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.             (b) An albino rabbit.          {White rent},             (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --                   opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.             (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by                   every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of                   Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]          {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros                   Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.             (b) The umhofo.          {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain             organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral             purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.          {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.          {White rot}. (Bot.)             (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and                   butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease                   called rot in sheep.             (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.          {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia             lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter             fat}.          {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.          {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.          {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})             injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under             {Orange}.          {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See             under {Shark}.          {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under             {Softening}.          {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.          {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious             blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach             otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on             the surface of the sea.          {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of             England. --Macaulay.          {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.          {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}             (d) .          {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The common sucker.             (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).          {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,             produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial             membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of             the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also             to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.          {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.          {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver             squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United             States.          {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White             vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.          {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.          {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.          {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.          {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.          {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,             bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --             distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and             Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.          {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers             are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent             purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.          {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of                   Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and                   {Thibetan wolf}.             (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.          {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called             from the color of the under parts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thibetian \Thi*be"tian\, a. & n.       Same as {Thibetan}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thiophthene \Thi*oph"thene\, n. [Abbreviated from       thionaphthene.] (Chem.)       A double thiophene nucleus, {C6H4S2}, analogous to       thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds.       [Written also {thiophtene}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thiophthene \Thi*oph"thene\, n. [Abbreviated from       thionaphthene.] (Chem.)       A double thiophene nucleus, {C6H4S2}, analogous to       thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds.       [Written also {thiophtene}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, a.       1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as             possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.                         Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands                      tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.      --Shak.                         Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory.   --Byron.          2. Noiseless; stealthy. [bd]With tiptoe step.[b8] --Cowper.          {Tiptoe mirth}, the highest degree of mirth. --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abate \A*bate"\ ([adot]*b[amac]t"), v. i. [See {Abate}, v. t.]       1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as,             pain abates, a storm abates.                         The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated.                                                                               --Macaulay.          2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to             fail; as, a writ abates.          {To abate into a freehold}, {To abate in lands} (Law), to             enter into a freehold after the death of the last             possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See             {Abatement}, 4.          Syn: To subside; decrease; intermit; decline; diminish;                lessen.          Usage: To {Abate}, {Subside}. These words, as here compared,                   imply a coming down from some previously raised or                   excited state. Abate expresses this in respect to                   degrees, and implies a diminution of force or of                   intensity; as, the storm abates, the cold abates, the                   force of the wind abates; or, the wind abates, a fever                   abates. Subside (to settle down) has reference to a                   previous state of agitation or commotion; as, the                   waves subside after a storm, the wind subsides into a                   calm. When the words are used figuratively, the same                   distinction should be observed. If we conceive of a                   thing as having different degrees of intensity or                   strength, the word to be used is abate. Thus we say, a                   man's anger abates, the ardor of one's love abates,                   [bd]Winter's rage abates[b8]. But if the image be that                   of a sinking down into quiet from preceding excitement                   or commotion, the word to be used is subside; as, the                   tumult of the people subsides, the public mind                   subsided into a calm. The same is the case with those                   emotions which are tumultuous in their nature; as, his                   passion subsides, his joy quickly subsided, his grief                   subsided into a pleasing melancholy. Yet if, in such                   cases, we were thinking of the degree of violence of                   the emotion, we might use abate; as, his joy will                   abate in the progress of time; and so in other                   instances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abate \A*bate"\ ([adot]*b[amac]t"), v. i. [See {Abate}, v. t.]       1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as,             pain abates, a storm abates.                         The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated.                                                                               --Macaulay.          2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to             fail; as, a writ abates.          {To abate into a freehold}, {To abate in lands} (Law), to             enter into a freehold after the death of the last             possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See             {Abatement}, 4.          Syn: To subside; decrease; intermit; decline; diminish;                lessen.          Usage: To {Abate}, {Subside}. These words, as here compared,                   imply a coming down from some previously raised or                   excited state. Abate expresses this in respect to                   degrees, and implies a diminution of force or of                   intensity; as, the storm abates, the cold abates, the                   force of the wind abates; or, the wind abates, a fever                   abates. Subside (to settle down) has reference to a                   previous state of agitation or commotion; as, the                   waves subside after a storm, the wind subsides into a                   calm. When the words are used figuratively, the same                   distinction should be observed. If we conceive of a                   thing as having different degrees of intensity or                   strength, the word to be used is abate. Thus we say, a                   man's anger abates, the ardor of one's love abates,                   [bd]Winter's rage abates[b8]. But if the image be that                   of a sinking down into quiet from preceding excitement                   or commotion, the word to be used is subside; as, the                   tumult of the people subsides, the public mind                   subsided into a calm. The same is the case with those                   emotions which are tumultuous in their nature; as, his                   passion subsides, his joy quickly subsided, his grief                   subsided into a pleasing melancholy. Yet if, in such                   cases, we were thinking of the degree of violence of                   the emotion, we might use abate; as, his joy will                   abate in the progress of time; and so in other                   instances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freehold \Free"hold`\, n. (LAw)       An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or       fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is       held. --Kent. Burrill.          {To abate into a freehold}. See under {Abate}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ace \Ace\, n.; pl. {Aces}. [OE. as, F. as, fr. L. as, assis,       unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage. Cf. {As}.]       1. A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card             or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.          2. Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an             atom; a jot.                         I 'll not wag an ace further.            --Dryden.          {To bate an ace}, to make the least abatement. [Obs.]          {Within an ace of}, very near; on the point of. --W. Irving.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Batten \Bat"ten\, v. t.       To furnish or fasten with battens.          {To batten down}, to fasten down with battens, as the             tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hatch \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[91]c, cf. haca the bar of a       door, D. hek gate, Sw. h[84]ck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger,       rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made       of pieces fastened together. Cf. {Heck}, {Hack} a frame.]       1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set             with spikes on the upper edge.                         In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak.          2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.          3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate. --Ainsworth.          4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.          5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse             which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway;             also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in             closing such an opening.          6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.          {Booby hatch}, {Buttery hatch}, {Companion hatch}, etc. See             under {Booby}, {Buttery}, etc.          {To batten down the hatches} (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over             them, and secure them with battens.          {To be under hatches}, to be confined below in a vessel; to             be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Home \Home\ (110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[be]m; akin to OS.       hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode,       world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k[89]mas, and       perh. to Gr.[?] village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.       ksh[?]ma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. [?],       [?] ]       1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives;             esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the             habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.                         The disciples went away again to their own home.                                                                               --John xx. 10.                         Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden.                         Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like                      home.                                                --Payne.          2. One's native land; the place or country in which one             dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.             [bd]Our old home [England].[b8] --Hawthorne.          3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the             domestic affections.                         He entered in his house -- his home no more, For                      without hearts there is no home.         --Byron.          4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first             found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat;             as, the home of the pine.                         Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.   --Tennyson.                         Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior.          5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for             outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave;             the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling             place of the soul.                         Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go                      about the streets.                              --Eccl. xii.                                                                               5.          6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.          {At home}.             (a) At one's own house, or lodgings.             (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at                   home.             (c) Prepared to receive callers.          {Home department}, the department of executive             administration, by which the internal affairs of a country             are managed. [Eng.]          {To be at home on any subject}, to be conversant or familiar             with it.          {To feel at home}, to be at one's ease.          {To make one's self at home}, to conduct one's self with as             much freedom as if at home.          Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mercy \Mer"cy\, n.; pl. {Mercies}. [OE. merci, F. merci, L.       merces, mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to       misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is prob[?] akin to merere       to deserve, acquire. See {Merit}, and cf. {Amerce}.]       1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of             provocation, when one has the power to inflict it;             compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary;             clemency.                         Examples of justice must be made for terror to some;                      examples of mercy for comfort to others. --Bacon.          2. Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless;             sometimes, favor, beneficence. --Luke x. 37.          3. Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity;             compassion; willingness to spare or to help.                         In whom mercy lacketh and is not founden. --Sir T.                                                                               Elyot.          4. A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or             favor.                         The Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.                                                                               --2 Cor. i. 3.          {Mercy seat} (Bib.), the golden cover or lid of the Ark of             the Covenant. See {Ark}, 2.          {Sisters of Mercy} (R. C. Ch.),a religious order founded in             Dublin in the year 1827. Communities of the same name have             since been established in various American cities. The             duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend             lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls,             and protect decent women out of employment, to visit             prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to             death.          {To be at the mercy of}, to be wholly in the power of.          Syn: See {Grace}.
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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.
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Down \Down\, adv. [For older adown, AS. ad[?]n, ad[?]ne, prop.,       from or off the hill. See 3d {Down}, and cf. {Adown}, and cf.       {Adown}.]       1. In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the             earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; --             the opposite of up.          2. Hence, in many derived uses, as:             (a) From a higher to a lower position, literally or                   figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top                   of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground                   or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition;                   as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and                   the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs                   indicating motion.                               It will be rain to-night. Let it come down.                                                                               --Shak.                               I sit me down beside the hazel grove.                                                                               --Tennyson.                               And that drags down his life.      --Tennyson.                               There is not a more melancholy object in the                            learned world than a man who has written himself                            down.                                          --Addison.                               The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone]                            the English.                                 --Shak.             (b) In a low or the lowest position, literally or                   figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the                   horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility,                   dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.                               I was down and out of breath.      --Shak.                               The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.                                                                               --Shak.                               He that is down needs fear no fall. --Bunyan.          3. From a remoter or higher antiquity.                         Venerable men! you have come down to us from a                      former generation.                              --D. Webster.          4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a             thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in             making decoctions. --Arbuthnot.          Note: Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go                down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul                down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or                exclamation.                            Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke.                                                                               --Shak.                            If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone                         will down.                                    --Locke.                Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down;                to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down.                            The temple of Her[8a] at Argos was burnt down.                                                                               --Jowett                                                                               (Thucyd. ).                Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a                conventional sense; as, down East.                            Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and                         those in the provinces, up to London.                                                                               --Stormonth.          {Down helm} (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm             to leeward.          {Down on} [or] {upon} (joined with a verb indicating motion,             as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea of             threatening power.                         Come down upon us with a mighty power. --Shak.          {Down with}, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in             energetic command. [bd]Down with the palace; fire it.[b8]             --Dryden.          {To be down on}, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.]                      {To cry down}. See under {Cry}, v. t.          {To cut down}. See under {Cut}, v. t.          {Up and down}, with rising and falling motion; to and fro;             hither and thither; everywhere. [bd]Let them wander up and             down.[b8] --Ps. lix. 15.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Mummy \Mum"my\, n.; pl. {Mummies}. [F. momie; cf. Sp. & Pg.       momia, It. mummia; all fr. Per. m[?]miy[be], fr. m[?]m wax.]       1. A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the             ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means,             in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction. --Bacon.          2. Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] --Sir. J. Hill.          3. A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when             heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal             properties. [Obs.] --Shak. --Sir T. Herbert.          4. A brown color obtained from bitumen. See {Mummy brown}             (below).          5. (Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.          6. One whose affections and energies are withered.          {Mummy brown}, a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint             between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color             is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian             tombs.          {Mummy wheat} (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases             of Egypt. No botanist now believes that genuine mummy             wheat has been made to germinate in modern times.          {To beat to a mummy}, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat             soundly.
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Field \Field\, n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G.       feld, Sw. f[84]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS.       folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.]       1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture;             cultivated ground; the open country.          2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece             inclosed for tillage or pasture.                         Fields which promise corn and wine.   --Byron.          3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.                         In this glorious and well-foughten field. --Shak.                         What though the field be lost?            --Milton.          4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.:             (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn                   or projected.             (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one                   view.                               Without covering, save yon field of stars.                                                                               --Shak.                               Ask of yonder argent fields above. --Pope.          5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much             of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon             it. See Illust. of {Fess}, where the field is represented             as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).          6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action,             operation, or achievement; province; room.                         Afforded a clear field for moral experiments.                                                                               --Macaulay.          7. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor             contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the             betting.          8. (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the             players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also             {outfield}.          Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of                belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with                reference to the operations and equipments of an army                during a campaign away from permanent camps and                fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is                sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field                fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field                geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes                investigations or collections out of doors. A survey                uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e.,                measurment, observations, etc., made in field work                (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field                hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick.                Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc.          {Coal field} (Geol.) See under {Coal}.          {Field artillery}, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the             use of a marching army.          {Field basil} (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family ({Calamintha             Acinos}); -- called also {basil thyme}.          {Field colors} (Mil.), small flags for marking out the             positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors.          {Field cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a large European cricket             ({Gryllus campestric}), remarkable for its loud notes.          {Field day}.             (a) A day in the fields.             (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for                   instruction in evolutions. --Farrow.             (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day.          {Field driver}, in New England, an officer charged with the             driving of stray cattle to the pound.          {Field duck} (Zo[94]l.), the little bustard ({Otis tetrax}),             found in Southern Europe.          {Field glass}. (Optics)             (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a                   race glass.             (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches                   long, and having 3 to 6 draws.             (c) See {Field lens}.          {Field lark}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The skylark.             (b) The tree pipit.          {Field lens} (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the             eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound             microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called             also {field glass}.          {Field madder} (Bot.), a plant ({Sherardia arvensis}) used in             dyeing.          {Field marshal} (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred             in the British and other European armies.          {Field mouse} (Zo[94]l.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the             campagnol and the deer mouse. See {Campagnol}, and {Deer             mouse}.          {Field officer} (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain             and below that of general.          {Field officer's court} (U.S.Army), a court-martial             consisting of one field officer empowered to try all             cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison             and regimental courts. --Farrow.          {Field plover} (Zo[94]l.), the black-bellied plover             ({Charadrius squatarola}); also sometimes applied to the             Bartramian sandpiper ({Bartramia longicauda}).          {Field spaniel} (Zo[94]l.), a small spaniel used in hunting             small game.          {Field sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A small American sparrow ({Spizella pusilla}).             (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.]          {Field staff}> (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to             hold a lighted match for discharging a gun.          {Field vole} (Zo[94]l.), the European meadow mouse.          {Field of ice}, a large body of floating ice; a pack.          {Field}, [or] {Field of view}, in a telescope or microscope,             the entire space within which objects are seen.          {Field magnet}. see under {Magnet}.          {Magnetic field}. See {Magnetic}.          {To back the field}, [or] {To bet on the field}. See under             {Back}, v. t. -- {To keep the field}.             (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign.             (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers.          {To} {lay, [or] back}, {against the field}, to bet on (a             horse, etc.) against all comers.          {To take the field} (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign.
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Bite \Bite\, v. t. [imp. {Bit}; p. p. {Bitten}, {Bit}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Biting}.] [OE. biten, AS. b[c6]tan; akin to D.       bijten, OS. b[c6]tan, OHG. b[c6]zan, G. beissen, Goth.       beitan, Icel. b[c6]ta, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to       cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave. [root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.]       1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the             thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth;             as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.                         Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite                      the holy cords atwain.                        --Shak.          2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some             insects) used in taking food.          3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,             in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the             mouth. [bd]Frosts do bite the meads.[b8] --Shak.          4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.          5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the             anchor bites the ground.                         The last screw of the rack having been turned so                      often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned                      and turned with nothing to bite.         --Dickens.          {To bite the dust}, {To bite the ground}, to fall in the             agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.          {To bite in} (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic             plates by means of an acid.          {To bite the thumb at} (any one), formerly a mark of             contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. [bd]Do             you bite your thumb at us?[b8] --Shak.          {To bite the tongue}, to keep silence. --Shak.
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Finger \Fin"ger\, n. [AS. finger; akin to D. vinger, OS. & OHG.       fingar, G. finger, Icel. fingr, Sw. & Dan. finger, Goth.       figgrs; of unknown origin; perh. akin to E. fang.]       1. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit;             esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than             the thumb.          2. Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a             clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially             (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is             brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or             restrain a motion.          3. The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a             measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a             measure in domestic use in the United States, of about             four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.                         A piece of steel three fingers thick. --Bp. Wilkins.          4. Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a             musical instrument. [R.]                         She has a good finger.                        --Busby.          {Ear finger}, the little finger.          {Finger alphabet}. See {Dactylology}.          {Finger bar}, the horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or             fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and             reaping machines play.          {Finger board} (Mus.), the part of a stringed instrument             against which the fingers press the strings to vary the             tone; the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual.          {Finger} {bowl [or] glass}, a bowl or glass to hold water for             rinsing the fingers at table.          {Finger flower} (Bot.), the foxglove.          {Finger grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Panicum sanguinale})             with slender radiating spikes; common crab grass. See             {Crab grass}, under {Crab}.          {Finger nut}, a fly nut or thumb nut.          {Finger plate}, a strip of metal, glass, etc., to protect a             painted or polished door from finger marks.          {Finger post}, a guide post bearing an index finger.          {Finger reading}, reading printed in relief so as to be             sensible to the touch; -- so made for the blind.          {Finger shell} (Zo[94]l.), a marine shell ({Pholas dactylus})             resembling a finger in form.          {Finger sponge} (Zo[94]l.), a sponge having finger-shaped             lobes, or branches.          {Finger stall}, a cover or shield for a finger.          {Finger steel}, a steel instrument for whetting a currier's             knife.          {To burn one's fingers}. See under {Burn}.          {To have a finger in}, to be concerned in. [Colloq.]          {To have at one's fingers' ends}, to be thoroughly familiar             with. [Colloq.]
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Retinue \Ret"i*nue\, n. [OE. retinue, OF. retinue, fr. retenir       to retain, engage, hire. See {Retain}.]       The body of retainers who follow a prince or other       distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.                   Others of your insolent retinue.            --Shak.                   What followers, what retinue canst thou gain? --Milton.          {To have at one's retinue}, to keep or employ as a retainer;             to retain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Do \Do\, v. i.       1. To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.                         They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . .                      the law and commandment.                     -- 2 Kings                                                                               xvii. 34.          2. To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how             he did; how do you do to-day?          3. [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of             use, AS. dugan. See {Doughty}.] To succeed; to avail; to             answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be             found, he will make this do.                         You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings                      and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that                      won't do; challenge the crown.            -- Collier.          {To do by}. See under {By}.          {To do for}.             (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit.             (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a                   goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.]                               Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their                            victim is stabbed and done for.   --Thackeray.          {To do withal}, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] [bd]I could not             do withal.[b8] --Shak.          {To do without}, to get along without; to dispense with.          {To have done}, to have made an end or conclusion; to have             finished; to be quit; to desist.          {To have done with}, to have completed; to be through with;             to have no further concern with.          {Well to do}, in easy circumstances.
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Have \Have\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Had}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Having}. Indic. present, I {have}, thou {hast}, he {has};       we, ye, they {have}.] [OE. haven, habben, AS. habben (imperf.       h[91]fde, p. p. geh[91]fd); akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben,       OFries, hebba, OHG. hab[?]n, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva,       Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F.       avoir. Cf. {Able}, {Avoirdupois}, {Binnacle}, {Habit}.]       1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a             farm.          2. To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected             with, or affects, one.                         The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. --Shak.                         He had a fever late.                           --Keats.          3. To accept possession of; to take or accept.                         Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou                      have me?                                             --Shak.          4. To get possession of; to obtain; to get. --Shak.          5. To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire;             to require.                         It had the church accurately described to me. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.                         Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also? --Ld.                                                                               Lytton.          6. To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.          7. To hold, regard, or esteem.                         Of them shall I be had in honor.         --2 Sam. vi.                                                                               22.          8. To cause or force to go; to take. [bd]The stars have us to             bed.[b8] --Herbert. [bd]Have out all men from me.[b8] --2             Sam. xiii. 9.          9. To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used             reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to             have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to             aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a             companion. --Shak.          10. To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled;             followed by an infinitive.                         Science has, and will long have, to be a divider                      and a separatist.                              --M. Arnold.                         The laws of philology have to be established by                      external comparison and induction.   --Earle.          11. To understand.                         You have me, have you not?               --Shak.          12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of;             as, that is where he had him. [Slang]          Note: Have, as an auxiliary verb, is used with the past                participle to form preterit tenses; as, I have loved; I                shall have eaten. Originally it was used only with the                participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the                possession of the object in the state indicated by the                participle; as, I have conquered him, I have or hold                him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost                this independent significance, and is used with the                participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs                as a device for expressing past time. Had is used,                especially in poetry, for would have or should have.                            Myself for such a face had boldly died.                                                                               --Tennyson.          {To have a care}, to take care; to be on one's guard.          {To have (a man) out}, to engage (one) in a duel.          {To have done} (with). See under Do, v. i.          {To have it out}, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a             conclusion.          {To have on}, to wear.          {To have to do with}. See under Do, v. t.          Syn: To possess; to own. See {Possess}.
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Do \Do\, v. i.       1. To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.                         They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . .                      the law and commandment.                     -- 2 Kings                                                                               xvii. 34.          2. To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how             he did; how do you do to-day?          3. [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of             use, AS. dugan. See {Doughty}.] To succeed; to avail; to             answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be             found, he will make this do.                         You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings                      and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that                      won't do; challenge the crown.            -- Collier.          {To do by}. See under {By}.          {To do for}.             (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit.             (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a                   goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.]                               Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their                            victim is stabbed and done for.   --Thackeray.          {To do withal}, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] [bd]I could not             do withal.[b8] --Shak.          {To do without}, to get along without; to dispense with.          {To have done}, to have made an end or conclusion; to have             finished; to be quit; to desist.          {To have done with}, to have completed; to be through with;             to have no further concern with.          {Well to do}, in easy circumstances.
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{On one's honor}, on the pledge of one's honor; as, the             members of the House of Lords in Great Britain, are not             under oath, but give their statements or verdicts on their             honor.          {Point of honor}, a scruple or nice distinction in matters             affecting one's honor; as, he raised a point of honor.          {To do the honors}, to bestow honor, as on a guest; to act as             host or hostess at an entertainment. [bd]To do the honors             and to give the word.[b8] --Pope.          {To do one honor}, to confer distinction upon one.          {To have the honor}, to have the privilege or distinction.          {Word of honor}, an engagement confirmed by a pledge of             honor.
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They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like             deep harmony.                                             --Shak.          Note: Attention is consciousness and something more. It is                consciousness voluntarily applied, under its law of                limitations, to some determinate object; it is                consciousness concentrated. --Sir W. Hamilton.          2. An act of civility or courtesy; care for the comfort and             pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger.          {To pay attention to}, {To pay one's attentions to}, to be             courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to             court.          Syn: Care; heed; study; consideration; application;                advertence; respect; regard.
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{An end}.             (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. --Spenser             (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] --Richardson.          {End bulb} (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some             sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and             mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles.          {End fly}, a bobfly.          {End for end}, one end for the other; in reversed order.          {End man}, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the             extremities of a line of minstrels.          {End on} (Naut.), bow foremost.          {End organ} (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber             ends, either peripherally or centrally.          {End plate} (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which             motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.          {End play} (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such             movement.          {End stone} (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a             timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.          {Ends of the earth}, the remotest regions of the earth.          {In the end}, finally. --Shak.          {On end}, upright; erect.          {To the end}, in order. --Bacon.          {To make both ends meet}, to live within one's income.             --Fuller.          {To put an end to}, to destroy.
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Put \Put\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to       put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke,       thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v.       i.]       1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; --             nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put             by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put             forth = to thrust out).                         His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy                      spiritual employment.                        --Jer. Taylor.          2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set;             figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified             relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated             mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put             a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.                         This present dignity, In which that I have put you.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen.                                                                               iii. 15.                         He put no trust in his servants.         --Job iv. 18.                         When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts                      invincible might.                              --Milton.                         In the mean time other measures were put in                      operation.                                          --Sparks.          3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong             construction on an act or expression.          4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.]                         No man hath more love than this, that a man put his                      life for his friends.                        --Wyclif (John                                                                               xv. 13).          5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection;             to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express;             figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes             followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a             question; to put a case.                         Let us now put that ye have leave.      --Chaucer.                         Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley.                         These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.                                                                               --Milton.                         All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare.          6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.                         These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift.                         Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense.                                                                               --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.                         Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion [bd]overhand,[b8]             the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in             athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.          8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working             to the tramway. --Raymond.          {Put case}, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or             suppose the case to be.                         Put case that the soul after departure from the body                      may live.                                          --Bp. Hall.          {To put about} (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as             a ship.          {To put away}.             (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel.             (b) To divorce.          {To put back}.             (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to                   delay.             (b) To refuse; to deny.                               Coming from thee, I could not put him back.                                                                               --Shak.             (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour.             (d) To restore to the original place; to replace.          {To put by}.             (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. [bd]Smiling put the                   question by.[b8] --Tennyson.             (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by                   money.          {To put down}.             (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down.             (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices.             (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to                   suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down                   rebellion or traitors.                               Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.                                                                               --Shak.                               Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon.             (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name.          {To put forth}.             (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to                   come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves.             (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into                   action; to exert; as, to put forth strength.             (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like.             (d) To publish, as a book.          {To put forward}.             (a) To advance to a position of prominence or                   responsibility; to promote.             (b) To cause to make progress; to aid.             (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour.          {To put in}.             (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to                   introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while                   others are discoursing.             (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship.             (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place                   among the records of a court. --Burrill.             (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place.                            {To put off}.             (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to                   put off mortality. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy                   feet.[b8] --Ex. iii. 5.             (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate;                   to baffle.                               I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius                            hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle.                               We might put him off with this answer.                                                                               --Bentley.             (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off                   repentance.             (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass                   fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an                   ingenious theory
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Put \Put\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to       put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke,       thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v.       i.]       1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; --             nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put             by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put             forth = to thrust out).                         His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy                      spiritual employment.                        --Jer. Taylor.          2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set;             figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified             relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated             mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put             a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.                         This present dignity, In which that I have put you.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen.                                                                               iii. 15.                         He put no trust in his servants.         --Job iv. 18.                         When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts                      invincible might.                              --Milton.                         In the mean time other measures were put in                      operation.                                          --Sparks.          3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong             construction on an act or expression.          4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.]                         No man hath more love than this, that a man put his                      life for his friends.                        --Wyclif (John                                                                               xv. 13).          5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection;             to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express;             figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes             followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a             question; to put a case.                         Let us now put that ye have leave.      --Chaucer.                         Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley.                         These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.                                                                               --Milton.                         All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare.          6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.                         These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift.                         Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense.                                                                               --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.                         Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion [bd]overhand,[b8]             the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in             athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.          8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working             to the tramway. --Raymond.          {Put case}, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or             suppose the case to be.                         Put case that the soul after departure from the body                      may live.                                          --Bp. Hall.          {To put about} (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as             a ship.          {To put away}.             (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel.             (b) To divorce.          {To put back}.             (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to                   delay.             (b) To refuse; to deny.                               Coming from thee, I could not put him back.                                                                               --Shak.             (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour.             (d) To restore to the original place; to replace.          {To put by}.             (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. [bd]Smiling put the                   question by.[b8] --Tennyson.             (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by                   money.          {To put down}.             (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down.             (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices.             (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to                   suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down                   rebellion or traitors.                               Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.                                                                               --Shak.                               Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon.             (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name.          {To put forth}.             (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to                   come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves.             (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into                   action; to exert; as, to put forth strength.             (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like.             (d) To publish, as a book.          {To put forward}.             (a) To advance to a position of prominence or                   responsibility; to promote.             (b) To cause to make progress; to aid.             (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour.          {To put in}.             (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to                   introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while                   others are discoursing.             (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship.             (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place                   among the records of a court. --Burrill.             (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place.                            {To put off}.             (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to                   put off mortality. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy                   feet.[b8] --Ex. iii. 5.             (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate;                   to baffle.                               I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius                            hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle.                               We might put him off with this answer.                                                                               --Bentley.             (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off                   repentance.             (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass                   fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an                   ingenious theory
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t in def. 3), v. i.       1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.]             --Bacon.          2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.                         His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. --Dryden.          3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.          {To put about} (Naut.), to change direction; to tack.          {To put back} (Naut.), to turn back; to return. [bd]The             French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey.          {To put forth}.             (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under                   walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --Bacon.             (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. --Shak.          {To put in} (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port.          {To put in for}.             (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share                   of profits.             (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a                   hawk.             (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for.                   --Locke.          {To put off}, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as             a ship; to move from the shore.          {To put on}, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently.          {To put over} (Naut.), to sail over or across.          {To put to sea} (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to             advance into the ocean.          {To put up}.             (a) To take lodgings; to lodge.             (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. --L'Estrange.
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Appearance \Ap*pear"ance\, n. [F. apparence, L. apparentia, fr.       apparere. See {Appear}.]       1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of             becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance             surprised me.          2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an             appearance in the sky.          3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect;             mien.                         And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance                      answer loud report.                           --Milton.          4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl.             Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a             particular impression or to determine the judgment as to             the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state;             as, appearances are against him.                         There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the                      appearance of fire.                           --Num. ix. 15.                         For man looketh on the outward appearance. --1 Sam.                                                                               xvi. 7.                         Judge not according to the appearance. --John. vii.                                                                               24.          5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society,             a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public             in a particular character; as, a person makes his             appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.                         Will he now retire, After appearance, and again                      prolong Our expectation?                     --Milton.          6. Probability; likelihood. [Obs.]                         There is that which hath no appearance. --Bacon.          7. (Law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the             being present in court; the coming into court of a party             summoned in an action, either by himself or by his             attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper             officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a             party proceeded against places himself before the court,             and submits to its jurisdiction. --Burrill. --Bouvier.             --Daniell.          {To put in an appearance}, to be present; to appear in             person.          {To save appearances}, to preserve a fair outward show.          Syn: Coming; arrival; presence; semblance; pretense; air;                look; manner; mien; figure; aspect.
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t in def. 3), v. i.       1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.]             --Bacon.          2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.                         His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. --Dryden.          3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.          {To put about} (Naut.), to change direction; to tack.          {To put back} (Naut.), to turn back; to return. [bd]The             French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey.          {To put forth}.             (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under                   walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --Bacon.             (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. --Shak.          {To put in} (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port.          {To put in for}.             (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share                   of profits.             (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a                   hawk.             (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for.                   --Locke.          {To put off}, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as             a ship; to move from the shore.          {To put on}, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently.          {To put over} (Naut.), to sail over or across.          {To put to sea} (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to             advance into the ocean.          {To put up}.             (a) To take lodgings; to lodge.             (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. --L'Estrange.
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Mind \Mind\, n. [AS. mynd, gemynd; akin to OHG. minna memory,       love, G. minne love, Dan. minde mind, memory, remembrance,       consent, vote, Sw. minne memory, Icel. minni, Goth. gamunds,       L. mens, mentis, mind, Gr. [?], Skr. manas mind, man to       think. [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?]. Cf. {Comment}, {Man}, {Mean},       v., 3d {Mental}, {Mignonette}, {Minion}, {Mnemonic},       {Money}.]       1. The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the             understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives,             judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the             soul; -- often in distinction from the body.                         By the mind of man we understand that in him which                      thinks, remembers, reasons, wills.      --Reid.                         What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives,                      thinks, feels, wills, and desires.      --Sir W.                                                                               Hamilton.                         Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.                                                                               --Rom. xiv. 5.                         The mind shall banquet, though the body pine.                                                                               --Shak.          2. The state, at any given time, of the faculties of             thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical             activity or state; as:             (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.                               A fool uttereth all his mind.      --Prov. xxix.                                                                               11.                               Being so hard to me that brought your mind, I                            fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling her                            mind.                                          --Shak.             (b) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.                               If it be your minds, then let none go forth. --2                                                                               Kings ix. 15.             (c) Courage; spirit. --Chapman.          3. Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in             mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.          {To have a mind} [or] {great mind}, to be inclined or             strongly inclined in purpose; -- used with an infinitive.             [bd]Sir Roger de Coverly . . . told me that he had a great             mind to see the new tragedy with me.[b8] --Addison.          {To lose one's mind}, to become insane, or imbecile.          {To make up one's mind}, to come to an opinion or decision;             to determine.          {To put in mind}, to remind. [bd]Regard us simply as putting             you in mind of what you already know to be good             policy.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd. ).
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Oar \Oar\, n [AS. [be]r; akin to Icel. [be]r, Dan. aare, Sw.       [86]ra; perh. akin to E. row, v. Cf. {Rowlock}.]       1. An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece             of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at             one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which             rests in the rowlock is called the loom.          Note: An oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a                kind of fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of                the boat.          2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.          3. (Zo[94]l.) An oarlike swimming organ of various             invertebrates.          {Oar cock}             (Zo[94]l), the water rail. [Prov. Eng.]          {Spoon oar}, an oar having the blade so curved as to afford a             better hold upon the water in rowing.          {To boat the oars}, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the             boat.          {To feather the oars}. See under {Feather}., v. t.          {To lie on the oars}, to cease pulling, raising the oars out             of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any             kind; to be idle; to rest.          {To muffle the oars}, to put something round that part which             rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing.          {To put in one's oar}, to give aid or advice; -- commonly             used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited.                      {To ship the oars}, to place them in the rowlocks.          {To toss the oars}, To peak the oars, to lift them from the             rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting             on the bottom of the boat.          {To trail oars}, to allow them to trail in the water             alongside of the boat.          {To unship the oars}, to take them out of the rowlocks.
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6. A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's             health; a toast; a health.          {Dead pledge}. [A translation of {LL}. mortuum vadium.] (Law)             A mortgage. See {Mortgage}.          {Living pledge}. [A translation of LL. vivum vadium.] (Law)             The conveyance of an estate to another for money borrowed,             to be held by him until the debt is paid out of the rents             and profits.          {To hold in pledge}, to keep as security.          {To put in pledge}, to pawn; to give as security.          Syn: See {Earnest}.
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Possession \Pos*ses"sion\, n. [F. possession, L. possessio.]       1. The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.          2. (Law) The having, holding, or detention of property in             one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy;             ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.          Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive;                actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;                constructive, when he has only the right to such                occupancy.          3. The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or             controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate;             wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.                         When the young man heard that saying, he went away                      sorrowful, for he had great possessions. --Matt.                                                                               xix. 22.                         Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.                                                                               --Acts v. 1.                         The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.                                                                               --Ob. 17.          4. The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil             spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as,             demoniacal possession.                         How long hath this possession held the man? --Shak.          {To give possession}, to put in another's power or occupancy.                      {To put in possession}.             (a) To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or                   furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or                   information.             (b) (Law) To place one in charge of property recovered in                   ejectment or writ of entry.          {To take possession}, to enter upon, or to bring within one's             power or occupancy.          {Writ of possession} (Law), a precept directing a sheriff to             put a person in peaceable possession of property recovered             in ejectment or writ of entry.
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Chair \Chair\, n. [OE. chaiere, chaere, OF. chaiere, chaere, F.       chaire pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's       or professor's chair, Gr. [?] down + [?] seat, [?] to sit,       akin to E. sit. See {Sit}, and cf. {Cathedral}, {chaise}.]       1. A movable single seat with a back.          2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but             esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.                         The chair of a philosophical school.   --Whewell.                         A chair of philology.                        --M. Arnold.          3. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to             address the chair.          4. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles,             or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.             --Shak.                         Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view                      with scorn two pages and a chair.      --Pope.          5. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and             secure them to the sleepers.          {Chair days}, days of repose and age.          {To put into the chair}, to elect as president, or as             chairman of a meeting. --Macaulay.          {To take the chair}, to assume the position of president, or             of chairman of a meeting.
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.             (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat.          {To put on} [or] {upon}.             (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume.                   [bd]Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.[b8]                   --L'Estrange.             (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put                   blame on or upon another.             (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] [bd]This came                   handsomely to put on the peace.[b8] --Bacon.             (d) To impose; to inflict. [bd]That which thou puttest on                   me, will I bear.[b8] --2 Kings xviii. 14.             (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam.             (f) To deceive; to trick. [bd]The stork found he was put                   upon.[b8] --L'Estrange.             (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him                   upon bread and water. [bd]This caution will put them                   upon considering.[b8] --Locke.             (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts                   himself on or upon the country. --Burrill.          {To put out}.             (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder.             (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout.             (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or                   fire.             (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds.             (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he                   was put out by my reply. [Colloq.]             (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the                   hand.             (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet.             (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put                   one out in reading or speaking.             (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open                   or cut windows. --Burrill.             (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put                   out the ankle.             (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing                   longer in a certain inning, as in base ball.          {To put over}.             (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a                   general over a division of an army.             (b) To refer.                               For the certain knowledge of that truth I put                            you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak.             (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the                   cause to the next term.             (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one                   over the river.          {To put the hand} {to [or] unto}.             (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to                   put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any                   task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work.             (b) To take or seize, as in theft. [bd]He hath not put his                   hand unto his neighbor's goods.[b8] --Ex. xxii. 11.          {To put through}, to cause to go through all conditions or             stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to             accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation;             he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.]          {To put to}.             (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another.             (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the                   state to hazard. [bd]That dares not put it to the                   touch.[b8] --Montrose.             (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to.                   --Dickens.          {To put to a stand}, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or             difficulties.          {To put to bed}.             (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child.             (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth.          {To put to death}, to kill.          {To put together}, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one.                      {To put this and that} (or {two and two}) {together}, to draw             an inference; to form a correct conclusion.          {To put to it}, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to             give difficulty to. [bd]O gentle lady, do not put me to             't.[b8] --Shak.          {To put to rights}, to arrange in proper order; to settle or             compose rightly.          {To put to the sword}, to kill with the sword; to slay.          {To put to trial}, or {on trial}, to bring to a test; to try.                      {To put trust in}, to confide in; to repose confidence in.          {To put up}.             (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or                   resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities.                   [Obs.] [bd]Such national injuries are not to be put                   up.[b8] --Addison.             (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale.             (d) To start from a cover, as game. [bd]She has been                   frightened; she has been put up.[b8] --C. Kingsley.             (e) To hoard. [bd]Himself never put up any of the                   rent.[b8] --Spelman.             (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to                   pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish.             (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper                   place; as, put up that letter. --Shak.             (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put                   the lad up to mischief.             (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or                   a house.             (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers.          {To put up a job}, to arrange a plot. [Slang]          Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state.          Usage: {Put}, {Lay}, {Place}, {Set}. These words agree in the                   idea of fixing the position of some object, and are                   often used interchangeably. To put is the least                   definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place                   has more particular reference to the precise location,                   as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To                   set or to lay may be used when there is special                   reference to the position of the object.
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t in def. 3), v. i.       1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.]             --Bacon.          2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.                         His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. --Dryden.          3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.          {To put about} (Naut.), to change direction; to tack.          {To put back} (Naut.), to turn back; to return. [bd]The             French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey.          {To put forth}.             (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under                   walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --Bacon.             (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. --Shak.          {To put in} (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port.          {To put in for}.             (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share                   of profits.             (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a                   hawk.             (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for.                   --Locke.          {To put off}, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as             a ship; to move from the shore.          {To put on}, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently.          {To put over} (Naut.), to sail over or across.          {To put to sea} (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to             advance into the ocean.          {To put up}.             (a) To take lodgings; to lodge.             (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. --L'Estrange.
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Trump \Trump\, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See       {Triumph}, and cf. {Trump} a trumpet.]       1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually             determined by chance for each deal) any card of which             takes any card of the other suits.          2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; --             called also {ruff}. --Decker.          3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]                         Alfred is a trump, I think you say.   --Thackeray.          {To put to one's trumps}, [or] {To put on one's trumps}, to             force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.                         But when kings come so low as to fawn upon                      philosophy, which before they neither valued nor                      understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are                      then put to their last trump.            --Milton.                         Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate                      them.                                                --W. Irving.
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Mettle \Met"tle\, n. [E. metal, used in a tropical sense in       allusion to the temper of the metal of a sword blade. See       {Metal}.]       Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards       honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; --       usually in a good sense.                   A certain critical hour which shall . . . try what                mettle his heart is made of.                  --South.                   Gentlemen of brave mettle.                     --Shak.                   The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most                true mettle when you check his course.   --Pope.          {To put one one's mettle}, to cause or incite one to use             one's best efforts.
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Conceit \Con*ceit"\, n. [Through French, fr. L. conceptus a       conceiving, conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p.       p. nom. conciez conceived. See {Conceive}, and cf. {Concept},       {Deceit}.]       1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind;             idea; thought; image; conception.                         In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of                      somewhat ridiculous.                           --Bacon.                         A man wise in his own conceit.            --Prov. xxvi.                                                                               12.          2. Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension;             as, a man of quick conceit. [Obs.]                         How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they                      loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had                      not my conceit open to understand them. --Sir P.                                                                               Sidney.          3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively             fancy.                         His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's                      more conceit in him than is in a mallet. --Shak.          4. A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an             unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn             of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.                         On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the                      head to go off with a conceit.            --L'Estrange.                         Some to conceit alone their works confine, And                      glittering thoughts struck out at every line.                                                                               --Pope.                         Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only                      below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to                      its nature.                                       --Dryden.          5. An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.                         Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.   --Cotton.          6. Design; pattern. [Obs.] --Shak.          {In conceit with}, in accord with; agreeing or conforming.          {Out of conceit with}, not having a favorable opinion of; not             pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress.                      {To put [one] out of conceit with}, to make one indifferent             to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.
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Foot \Foot\ (f[oocr]t), n.; pl. {Feet} (f[emac]t). [OE. fot,       foot, pl. fet, feet. AS. f[omac]t, pl. f[emac]t; akin to D.       voet, OHG. fuoz, G. fuss, Icel. f[omac]tr, Sw. fot, Dan. fod,       Goth. f[omac]tus, L. pes, Gr. poy`s, Skr. p[be]d, Icel. fet       step, pace measure of a foot, feta to step, find one's way.       [fb]77, 250. Cf. {Antipodes}, {Cap-a-pie}, {Expedient}, {Fet}       to fetch, {Fetlock}, {Fetter}, {Pawn} a piece in chess,       {Pedal}.]       1. (Anat.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal;             esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an             animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See             {Manus}, and {Pes}.          2. (Zo[94]l.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It             is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body,             often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See             Illust. of {Buccinum}.          3. That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as,             the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.          4. The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as             of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or             series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with             inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the             procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.                         And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their                      feet.                                                --Milton.          5. Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the             singular.                         Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.                                                                               --Berkeley.          6. Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the             singular. [R.]                         As to his being on the foot of a servant. --Walpole.          7. A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third             of a yard. See {Yard}.          Note: This measure is supposed to be taken from the length of                a man's foot. It differs in length in different                countries. In the United States and in England it is                304.8 millimeters.          8. (Mil.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry,             usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the             cavalry. [bd]Both horse and foot.[b8] --Milton.          9. (Pros.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical             element of a verse, the syllables being formerly             distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern             poetry by the accent.          10. (Naut.) The lower edge of a sail.          Note: Foot is often used adjectively, signifying of or                pertaining to a foot or the feet, or to the base or                lower part. It is also much used as the first of                compounds.          {Foot artillery}. (Mil.)             (a) Artillery soldiers serving in foot.             (b) Heavy artillery. --Farrow.          {Foot bank} (Fort.), a raised way within a parapet.          {Foot barracks} (Mil.), barracks for infantery.          {Foot bellows}, a bellows worked by a treadle. --Knight.          {Foot company} (Mil.), a company of infantry. --Milton.          {Foot gear}, covering for the feet, as stocking, shoes, or             boots.          {Foot hammer} (Mach.), a small tilt hammer moved by a             treadle.          {Foot iron}.             (a) The step of a carriage.             (b) A fetter.          {Foot jaw}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Maxilliped}.          {Foot key} (Mus.), an organ pedal.          {Foot level} (Gunnery), a form of level used in giving any             proposed angle of elevation to a piece of ordnance.             --Farrow.          {Foot mantle}, a long garment to protect the dress in riding;             a riding skirt. [Obs.]          {Foot page}, an errand boy; an attendant. [Obs.]          {Foot passenger}, one who passes on foot, as over a road or             bridge.          {Foot pavement}, a paved way for foot passengers; a footway;             a trottoir.          {Foot poet}, an inferior poet; a poetaster. [R.] --Dryden.          {Foot post}.             (a) A letter carrier who travels on foot.             (b) A mail delivery by means of such carriers.          {Fot pound}, [and] {Foot poundal}. (Mech.) See {Foot pound}             and {Foot poundal}, in the Vocabulary.          {Foot press} (Mach.), a cutting, embossing, or printing             press, moved by a treadle.          {Foot race}, a race run by persons on foot. --Cowper.          {Foot rail}, a railroad rail, with a wide flat flange on the             lower side.          {Foot rot}, an ulcer in the feet of sheep; claw sickness.          {Foot rule}, a rule or measure twelve inches long.          {Foot screw}, an adjusting screw which forms a foot, and             serves to give a machine or table a level standing on an             uneven place.          {Foot secretion}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sclerobase}.          {Foot soldier}, a soldier who serves on foot.          {Foot stick} (Printing), a beveled piece of furniture placed             against the foot of the page, to hold the type in place.                      {Foot stove}, a small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot             coals for warming the feet.          {Foot tubercle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Parapodium}.          {Foot valve} (Steam Engine), the valve that opens to the air             pump from the condenser.          {Foot vise}, a kind of vise the jaws of which are operated by             a treadle.          {Foot waling} (Naut.), the inside planks or lining of a             vessel over the floor timbers. --Totten.          {Foot wall} (Mining), the under wall of an inclosed vein.          {By foot}, [or] {On foot}, by walking; as, to pass a stream             on foot.          {Cubic foot}. See under {Cubic}.          {Foot and mouth disease}, a contagious disease (Eczema             epizo[94]tica) of cattle, sheep, swine, etc.,             characterized by the formation of vesicles and ulcers in             the mouth and about the hoofs.          {Foot of the fine} (Law), the concluding portion of an             acknowledgment in court by which, formerly, the title of             land was conveyed. See {Fine of land}, under {Fine}, n.;             also {Chirograph}. (b).          {Square foot}. See under {Square}.          {To be on foot}, to be in motion, action, or process of             execution.          {To keep the foot} (Script.), to preserve decorum. [bd]Keep             thy foot when thou goest to the house of God.[b8] --Eccl.             v. 1.          {To put one's foot down}, to take a resolute stand; to be             determined. [Colloq.]          {To put the best foot foremost}, to make a good appearance;             to do one's best. [Colloq.]          {To set on foot}, to put in motion; to originate; as, to set             on foot a subscription.          {To} {put, [or] set}, {one on his feet}, to put one in a             position to go on; to assist to start.          {Under foot}.             (a) Under the feet; (Fig.) at one's mercy; as, to trample                   under foot. --Gibbon.             (b) Below par. [Obs.] [bd]They would be forced to sell .                   . . far under foot.[b8] --Bacon.
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Mahogany \Ma*hog"a*ny\, n. [From the South American name.]       1. (Bot.) A large tree of the genus {Swietenia} ({S.             Mahogoni}), found in tropical America.          Note: Several other trees, with wood more or less like                mahogany, are called by this name; as, African mahogany                ({Khaya Senegalensis}), Australian mahogany                ({Eucalyptus marginatus}), Bastard mahogany ({Batonia                apetala} of the West Indies), Indian mahogany ({Cedrela                Toona} of Bengal, and trees of the genera {Soymida} and                {Chukrassia}), Madeira mahogany ({Persea Indica}),                Mountain mahogany, the black or cherry birch ({Betula                lenta}), also the several species of {Cercocarpus} of                California and the Rocky Mountains.          2. The wood of the {Swietenia Mahogoni}. It is of a reddish             brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and             susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the             manufacture of furniture.          3. A table made of mahogany wood. [Colloq.]          {To be under the mahogany}, to be so drunk as to have fallen             under the table. [Eng.]          {To put one's legs under some one's mahogany}, to dine with             him. [Slang]
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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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.             (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat.          {To put on} [or] {upon}.             (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume.                   [bd]Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.[b8]                   --L'Estrange.             (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put                   blame on or upon another.             (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] [bd]This came                   handsomely to put on the peace.[b8] --Bacon.             (d) To impose; to inflict. [bd]That which thou puttest on                   me, will I bear.[b8] --2 Kings xviii. 14.             (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam.             (f) To deceive; to trick. [bd]The stork found he was put                   upon.[b8] --L'Estrange.             (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him                   upon bread and water. [bd]This caution will put them                   upon considering.[b8] --Locke.             (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts                   himself on or upon the country. --Burrill.          {To put out}.             (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder.             (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout.             (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or                   fire.             (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds.             (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he                   was put out by my reply. [Colloq.]             (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the                   hand.             (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet.             (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put                   one out in reading or speaking.             (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open                   or cut windows. --Burrill.             (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put                   out the ankle.             (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing                   longer in a certain inning, as in base ball.          {To put over}.             (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a                   general over a division of an army.             (b) To refer.                               For the certain knowledge of that truth I put                            you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak.             (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the                   cause to the next term.             (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one                   over the river.          {To put the hand} {to [or] unto}.             (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to                   put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any                   task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work.             (b) To take or seize, as in theft. [bd]He hath not put his                   hand unto his neighbor's goods.[b8] --Ex. xxii. 11.          {To put through}, to cause to go through all conditions or             stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to             accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation;             he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.]          {To put to}.             (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another.             (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the                   state to hazard. [bd]That dares not put it to the                   touch.[b8] --Montrose.             (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to.                   --Dickens.          {To put to a stand}, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or             difficulties.          {To put to bed}.             (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child.             (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth.          {To put to death}, to kill.          {To put together}, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one.                      {To put this and that} (or {two and two}) {together}, to draw             an inference; to form a correct conclusion.          {To put to it}, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to             give difficulty to. [bd]O gentle lady, do not put me to             't.[b8] --Shak.          {To put to rights}, to arrange in proper order; to settle or             compose rightly.          {To put to the sword}, to kill with the sword; to slay.          {To put to trial}, or {on trial}, to bring to a test; to try.                      {To put trust in}, to confide in; to repose confidence in.          {To put up}.             (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or                   resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities.                   [Obs.] [bd]Such national injuries are not to be put                   up.[b8] --Addison.             (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale.             (d) To start from a cover, as game. [bd]She has been                   frightened; she has been put up.[b8] --C. Kingsley.             (e) To hoard. [bd]Himself never put up any of the                   rent.[b8] --Spelman.             (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to                   pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish.             (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper                   place; as, put up that letter. --Shak.             (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put                   the lad up to mischief.             (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or                   a house.             (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers.          {To put up a job}, to arrange a plot. [Slang]          Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state.          Usage: {Put}, {Lay}, {Place}, {Set}. These words agree in the                   idea of fixing the position of some object, and are                   often used interchangeably. To put is the least                   definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place                   has more particular reference to the precise location,                   as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To                   set or to lay may be used when there is special                   reference to the position of the object.
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Hand \Hand\, n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand,       OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[94]nd, Goth. handus, and perh.       to Goth. hinpan to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.]       1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in             man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other             animals; manus; paw. See {Manus}.          2. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the             office of, a human hand; as:             (a) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or                   any one of the four extremities of a monkey.             (b) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute                   hand of a clock.          3. A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a             palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.          4. Side; part; direction, either right or left.                         On this hand and that hand, were hangings. --Ex.                                                                               xxxviii. 15.                         The Protestants were then on the winning hand.                                                                               --Milton.          5. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill;             dexterity.                         He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator.                                                                               --Addison.          6. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence,             manner of performance.                         To change the hand in carrying on the war.                                                                               --Clarendon.                         Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my                      hand.                                                --Judges vi.                                                                               36.          7. An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or             competent for special service or duty; a performer more or             less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand             at speaking.                         A dictionary containing a natural history requires                      too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be                      hoped for.                                          --Locke.                         I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.                                                                               --Hazlitt.          8. Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or             running hand. Hence, a signature.                         I say she never did invent this letter; This is a                      man's invention and his hand.            --Shak.                         Some writs require a judge's hand.      --Burril.          9. Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction;             management; -- usually in the plural. [bd]Receiving in             hand one year's tribute.[b8] --Knolles.                         Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the                      goverment of Britain.                        --Milton.          10. Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to             buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when             new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the             producer's hand, or when not new.          11. Rate; price. [Obs.] [bd]Business is bought at a dear             hand, where there is small dispatch.[b8] --Bacon.          12. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once; as:             (a) (Card Playing) The quota of cards received from the                   dealer.             (b) (Tobacco Manuf.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied                   together.          13. (Firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock,             which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.          Note: Hand is used figuratively for a large variety of acts                or things, in the doing, or making, or use of which the                hand is in some way employed or concerned; also, as a                symbol to denote various qualities or conditions, as:             (a) Activity; operation; work; -- in distinction from the                   head, which implies thought, and the heart, which                   implies affection. [bd]His hand will be against every                   man.[b8] --Gen. xvi. 12.             (b) Power; might; supremacy; -- often in the Scriptures.                   [bd]With a mighty hand . . . will I rule over                   you.[b8] --Ezek. xx. 33.             (c) Fraternal feeling; as, to give, or take, the hand; to                   give the right hand.             (d) Contract; -- commonly of marriage; as, to ask the                   hand; to pledge the hand.          Note: Hand is often used adjectively or in compounds (with or                without the hyphen), signifying performed by the hand;                as, hand blow or hand-blow, hand gripe or hand-gripe:                used by, or designed for, the hand; as, hand ball or                handball, hand bow, hand fetter, hand grenade or                hand-grenade, handgun or hand gun, handloom or hand                loom, handmill or hand organ or handorgan, handsaw or                hand saw, hand-weapon: measured or regulated by the                hand; as, handbreadth or hand's breadth, hand gallop or                hand-gallop. Most of the words in the following                paragraph are written either as two words or in                combination.          {Hand bag}, a satchel; a small bag for carrying books,             papers, parcels, etc.          {Hand basket}, a small or portable basket.          {Hand bell}, a small bell rung by the hand; a table bell.             --Bacon.          {Hand bill}, a small pruning hook. See 4th {Bill}.          {Hand car}. See under {Car}.          {Hand director} (Mus.), an instrument to aid in forming a             good position of the hands and arms when playing on the             piano; a hand guide.          {Hand drop}. See {Wrist drop}.          {Hand gallop}. See under {Gallop}.          {Hand gear} (Mach.), apparatus by means of which a machine,             or parts of a machine, usually operated by other power,             may be operated by hand.          {Hand glass}.             (a) A glass or small glazed frame, for the protection of                   plants.             (b) A small mirror with a handle.          {Hand guide}. Same as {Hand director} (above).          {Hand language}, the art of conversing by the hands, esp. as             practiced by the deaf and dumb; dactylology.          {Hand lathe}. See under {Lathe}.          {Hand money}, money paid in hand to bind a contract; earnest             money.          {Hand organ} (Mus.), a barrel organ, operated by a crank             turned by hand.          {Hand plant}. (Bot.) Same as {Hand tree} (below). -- {Hand             rail}, a rail, as in staircases, to hold by. --Gwilt.          {Hand sail}, a sail managed by the hand. --Sir W. Temple.          {Hand screen}, a small screen to be held in the hand.          {Hand screw}, a small jack for raising heavy timbers or             weights; (Carp.) a screw clamp.          {Hand staff} (pl. {Hand staves}), a javelin. --Ezek. xxxix.             9.          {Hand stamp}, a small stamp for dating, addressing, or             canceling papers, envelopes, etc.          {Hand tree} (Bot.), a lofty tree found in Mexico             ({Cheirostemon platanoides}), having red flowers whose             stamens unite in the form of a hand.          {Hand vise}, a small vise held in the hand in doing small             work. --Moxon.          {Hand work}, [or] {Handwork}, work done with the hands, as             distinguished from work done by a machine; handiwork.          {All hands}, everybody; all parties.          {At all hands}, {On all hands}, on all sides; from every             direction; generally.          {At any hand}, {At no hand}, in any (or no) way or direction;             on any account; on no account. [bd]And therefore at no             hand consisting with the safety and interests of             humility.[b8] --Jer. Taylor.          {At first hand}, {At second hand}. See def. 10 (above).          {At hand}.             (a) Near in time or place; either present and within                   reach, or not far distant. [bd]Your husband is at                   hand; I hear his trumpet.[b8] --Shak.             (b) Under the hand or bridle. [Obs.] [bd]Horses hot at                   hand.[b8] --Shak.          {At the hand of}, by the act of; as a gift from. [bd]Shall we             receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive             evil?[b8] --Job ii. 10.          {Bridle hand}. See under {Bridle}.          {By hand}, with the hands, in distinction from             instrumentality of tools, engines, or animals; as, to weed             a garden by hand; to lift, draw, or carry by hand.          {Clean hands}, freedom from guilt, esp. from the guilt of             dishonesty in money matters, or of bribe taking. [bd]He             that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.[b8]             --Job xvii. 9.          {From hand to hand}, from one person to another.          {Hand in hand}.             (a) In union; conjointly; unitedly. --Swift.             (b) Just; fair; equitable.                               As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand                            comparison.                                 --Shak.                            {Hand over hand}, {Hand over fist}, by passing the hands             alternately one before or above another; as, to climb hand             over hand; also, rapidly; as, to come up with a chase hand             over hand.          {Hand over head}, negligently; rashly; without seeing what             one does. [Obs.] --Bacon.          {Hand running}, consecutively; as, he won ten times hand             running.          {Hand off!} keep off! forbear! no interference or meddling!                      {Hand to hand}, in close union; in close fight; as, a hand to             hand contest. --Dryden.          {Heavy hand}, severity or oppression.          {In hand}.             (a) Paid down. [bd]A considerable reward in hand, and . .                   . a far greater reward hereafter.[b8] --Tillotson.             (b) In preparation; taking place. --Chaucer. [bd]Revels .                   . . in hand.[b8] --Shak.             (c) Under consideration, or in the course of transaction;                   as, he has the business in hand.          {In one's hand} [or] {hands}.             (a) In one's possession or keeping.             (b) At one's risk, or peril; as, I took my life in my                   hand.          {Laying on of hands}, a form used in consecrating to office,             in the rite of confirmation, and in blessing persons.          {Light hand}, gentleness; moderation.          {Note of hand}, a promissory note.          {Off hand}, {Out of hand}, forthwith; without delay,             hesitation, or difficulty; promptly. [bd]She causeth them             to be hanged up out of hand.[b8] --Spenser.          {Off one's hands}, out of one's possession or care.          {On hand}, in present possession; as, he has a supply of             goods on hand.          {On one's hands}, in one's possession care, or management.          {Putting the hand under the thigh}, an ancient Jewish             ceremony used in swearing.          {Right hand}, the place of honor, power, and strength.          {Slack hand}, idleness; carelessness; inefficiency; sloth.          {Strict hand}, severe discipline; rigorous government.          {To bear a hand}             (Naut), to give help quickly; to hasten.          {To bear in hand}, to keep in expectation with false             pretenses. [Obs.] --Shak.          {To be} {hand and glove, [or] in glove} {with}. See under             {Glove}.          {To be on the mending hand}, to be convalescent or improving.                      {To bring up by hand}, to feed (an infant) without suckling             it.          {To change hand}. See {Change}.          {To change hands}, to change sides, or change owners.             --Hudibras.          {To clap the hands}, to express joy or applause, as by             striking the palms of the hands together.          {To come to hand}, to be received; to be taken into             possession; as, the letter came to hand yesterday.          {To get hand}, to gain influence. [Obs.]                         Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them.                                                                               --Baxter.          {To got one's hand in}, to make a beginning in a certain             work; to become accustomed to a particular business.          {To have a hand in}, to be concerned in; to have a part or             concern in doing; to have an agency or be employed in.          {To have in hand}.             (a) To have in one's power or control. --Chaucer.             (b) To be engaged upon or occupied with.          {To have one's hands full}, to have in hand al that one can             do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed             with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with             difficulties.          {To} {have, [or] get}, {the (higher) upper hand}, to have, or             get, the better of another person or thing.          {To his hand}, {To my hand}, etc., in readiness; already             prepared. [bd]The work is made to his hands.[b8] --Locke.          {To hold hand}, to compete successfully or on even             conditions. [Obs.] --Shak.          {To lay hands on}, to seize; to assault.          {To lend a hand}, to give assistance.          {To} {lift, [or] put forth}, {the hand against}, to attack;             to oppose; to kill.          {To live from hand to mouth}, to obtain food and other             necessaries as want compels, without previous provision.                      {To make one's hand}, to gain advantage or profit.          {To put the hand unto}, to steal. --Ex. xxii. 8.          {To put the}          {last, [or] finishing},          {hand to}, to make the last corrections in; to complete; to             perfect.          {To set the hand to}, to engage in; to undertake.                         That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that                      thou settest thine hand to.               --Deut. xxiii.                                                                               20.          {To stand one in hand}, to concern or affect one.          {To strike hands}, to make a contract, or to become surety             for another's debt or good behavior.          {To take in hand}.             (a) To attempt or undertake.             (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand.          {To wash the hands of}, to disclaim or renounce interest in,             or responsibility for, a person or action; as, to wash             one's hands of a business. --Matt. xxvii. 24.          {Under the hand of}, authenticated by the handwriting or             signature of; as, the deed is executed under the hand and             seal of the owner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nurse \Nurse\, n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice,       norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop.,       fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis,       nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See {Nourish}, and cf.       {Nutritious}.]       1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or             brings up; as:             (a) A woman who has the care of young children;                   especially, one who suckles an infant not her own.             (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the                   sick or infirm.          2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,             trains, fosters, or the like.                         The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.                                                                               --Burke.          3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real             commander when the captain is unfit for his place.          4. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces                   cercari[91] by asexual reproduction. See {Cercaria},                   and {Redia}.             (b) Either one of the nurse sharks.          {Nurse shark}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A large arctic shark ({Somniosus microcephalus}),                   having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also                   {sleeper shark}, and {ground shark}.             (b) A large shark ({Ginglymostoma cirratum}), native of                   the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal                   fins situated behind the ventral fins.          {To put to nurse}, [or] {To put out to nurse}, to send away             to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.          {Wet nurse}, {Dry nurse}. See {Wet nurse}, and {Dry nurse},             in the Vocabulary.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trump \Trump\, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See       {Triumph}, and cf. {Trump} a trumpet.]       1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually             determined by chance for each deal) any card of which             takes any card of the other suits.          2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; --             called also {ruff}. --Decker.          3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]                         Alfred is a trump, I think you say.   --Thackeray.          {To put to one's trumps}, [or] {To put on one's trumps}, to             force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.                         But when kings come so low as to fawn upon                      philosophy, which before they neither valued nor                      understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are                      then put to their last trump.            --Milton.                         Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate                      them.                                                --W. Irving.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe,       female screw, F. [82]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in       LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a       screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[umac]fa.]       1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a             continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it             spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a             continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, --             used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or             pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of             the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the             threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being             distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more             usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female             screw, or, more usually, the nut.          Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of                the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a                right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the                hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the                screw, its base equaling the circumference of the                cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.          2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a             head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver.             Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to             fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw             nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below.          3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of             wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the             stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal             surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a             screw. See {Screw propeller}, below.          4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a             screw steamer; a propeller.          5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.             --Thackeray.          6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary             severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a             student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]          7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew.          8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and             commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton.          9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite             linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th             {Pitch}, 10             (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid                   body, which may always be made to consist of a                   rotation about an axis combined with a translation                   parallel to that axis.          10. (Zo[94]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw             ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}.          {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See             under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc.          {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not             done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H.             Martineau.          {Endless, [or] perpetual, {screw}, a screw used to give             motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads             between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}.                      {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}.          {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the             measurement of very small spaces.          {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the             opposite ends which wind in opposite directions.          {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}.          {Screw bean}. (Bot.)             (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree                   ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to                   California. It is used for fodder, and ground into                   meal by the Indians.             (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for                   fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties.          {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in             distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3.          {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the             thread on a wooden screw.          {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}.          {Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw             propeller.          {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}.          {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}.          {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner             wrench.          {Screw machine}.             (a) One of a series of machines employed in the                   manufacture of wood screws.             (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of                   cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work                   successively, for making screws and other turned                   pieces from metal rods.          {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus             {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species,             natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; --             named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like             leaves.          {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws,             consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of             perforations with internal screws forming dies.          {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means             of a screw.          {Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in             the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel             propelled by a screw.          {Screw shell} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod             shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied             genera. See {Turritella}.          {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw.          {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw.          {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite.          {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres},             consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs,             with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled             capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}.          {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a             screw.          {Screw worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American fly             ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which             sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about             wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results.          {Screw wrench}.             (a) A wrench for turning a screw.             (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a                   screw.          {To put the} {screw, [or] screws}, {on}, to use pressure             upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.          {To put under the} {screw [or] screws}, to subject to             pressure; to force.          {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse             pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of             {Wood screw}, under {Wood}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wipe \Wipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wiped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Wiping}.] [OE. vipen, AS. w[c6]pian; cf. LG. wiep a wisp of       straw, Sw. vepa to wrap up, to cuddle one's self up, vepa a       blanket; perhaps akin to E. whip.]       1. To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry             by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.                         Let me wipe thy face.                        --Shak.                         I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping                      it, and turning it upside down.         --2 Kings xxi.                                                                               13.          2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; --             usually followed by away, off or out. Also used             figuratively. [bd]To wipe out our ingratitude.[b8] --Shak.                         Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them                      soon.                                                --Milton.          3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by             out. [Obs.] --Spenser.                         If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside                      their goods.                                       --Robynson                                                                               (More's                                                                               Utopia)          {To wipe a joint} (Plumbing), to make a joint, as between             pieces of lead pipe, by surrounding the junction with a             mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of             a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.          {To wipe the nose of}, to cheat. [Old Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Toftman \Toft"man\, n.; pl. {Toftmen}.       The owner of a toft. See {Toft}, 3.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Toftman \Toft"man\, n.; pl. {Toftmen}.       The owner of a toft. See {Toft}, 3.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Top-timbers \Top"-tim`bers\, n. (Naut.)       The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those       above the futtocks. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tufthunter \Tuft"hunt`er\, n.       A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in       English universities; a toady. See 1st {Tuft}, 3. [Cant,       Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tufthunting \Tuft"hunt`ing\, n.       The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or       persons of quality, especially in English universities.       [Cant, Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tuft \Tuft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tufted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Tufting}.]       1. To separate into tufts.          2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. --Thomson.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tafton, PA       Zip code(s): 18464
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Taputimu, AS (village, FIPS 76900)       Location: 14.35762 S, 170.77011 W       Population (1990): 520 (77 housing units)       Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tifton, GA (city, FIPS 76476)       Location: 31.46536 N, 83.51061 W       Population (1990): 14215 (5677 housing units)       Area: 19.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tipton, CA (CDP, FIPS 78750)       Location: 36.05809 N, 119.31189 W       Population (1990): 1383 (428 housing units)       Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 93272    Tipton, IA (city, FIPS 78285)       Location: 41.77051 N, 91.12890 W       Population (1990): 2998 (1313 housing units)       Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 52772    Tipton, IN (city, FIPS 75986)       Location: 40.28285 N, 86.04032 W       Population (1990): 4751 (2120 housing units)       Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 46072    Tipton, KS (city, FIPS 70675)       Location: 39.33937 N, 98.47107 W       Population (1990): 267 (118 housing units)       Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 67485    Tipton, MI       Zip code(s): 49287    Tipton, MO (city, FIPS 73420)       Location: 38.65308 N, 92.78000 W       Population (1990): 2026 (907 housing units)       Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 65081    Tipton, OK (town, FIPS 73850)       Location: 34.50126 N, 99.13750 W       Population (1990): 1043 (524 housing units)       Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 73570    Tipton, PA (CDP, FIPS 76880)       Location: 40.63633 N, 78.29857 W       Population (1990): 1194 (466 housing units)       Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tipton County, IN (county, FIPS 159)       Location: 40.30985 N, 86.05161 W       Population (1990): 16119 (6427 housing units)       Area: 674.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)    Tipton County, TN (county, FIPS 167)       Location: 35.49220 N, 89.75747 W       Population (1990): 37568 (14071 housing units)       Area: 1189.8 sq km (land), 39.8 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tiptonville, TN (town, FIPS 74540)       Location: 36.37726 N, 89.47231 W       Population (1990): 2149 (844 housing units)       Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 38079
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Topton, NC       Zip code(s): 28781    Topton, PA (borough, FIPS 77104)       Location: 40.50350 N, 75.70263 W       Population (1990): 1987 (779 housing units)       Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 19562
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
tube time n.   Time spent at a terminal or console.   More    inclusive than hacking time; commonly used in discussions of what    parts of one's environment one uses most heavily.   "I find I'm    spending too much of my tube time reading mail since I started this    revision."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
top-down design          (Or "stepwise refinement").   The software design       technique which aims to describe functionality at a very high       level, then partition it repeatedly into more detailed levels       one level at a time until the detail is sufficient to allow       coding.   This approach to software design probably originated       at {IBM}, and grew out of {structured programming} practices.          (1996-08-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Top-Down Model          A method for estimating the overall cost and       effort of the proposed software project from global properties       of the project.   The total cost and schedule is partitioned       into components for planning purposes.          (1996-05-29)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tube time          Time spent at a terminal or console.   More inclusive than       hacking time; commonly used in discussions of what parts of       one's environment one uses most heavily.   "I find I'm spending       too much of my tube time reading mail since I started this       revision."          [{Jargon File}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tob-adonijah       good is Jehovah, my Lord, a Levite sent out by Jehoshaphat to       instruct the people of Judah in the law (2 Chr. 17:8).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Tob-adonijah, my good God; the goodness of the foundation of the Lord