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A
  • (prep.) In

    Able
  • (a.) To make able
  • (superl.) Fit

    About
  • (adv.) Here and there
  • (prep.) Around

    Above
  • (adv.) Earlier in order
  • (prep.) Figuratively, higher than

    Abruptly
  • (adv.) In an abrupt manner

    Absorbedly
  • (adv.) In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

    Account
  • (n.) An estimate or estimation
  • (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason
  • (v. t.) To place to one's account

    Accusingly
  • (adv.) In an accusing manner.

    Ace
  • (n.) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.

    Ache
  • (n.) A name given to several species of plants
  • (v. i.) Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones

    Across
  • (adv.) From side to side
  • (n.) From side to side

    Act
  • (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
  • (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices
  • (v. t.) To assume the office or character of

    Action
  • (n.) An act

    Advance
  • (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time
  • (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan
  • (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect
  • (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress

    Advantage
  • (n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end
  • (v. t.) To give an advantage to

    After
  • (a.) Hinder
  • (adv.) Subsequently in time or place
  • (prep.) According to

    Again
  • (adv.) Another time

    Ageless
  • (a.) Without old age limits of duration

    Ago
  • (a. & adv.) Past

    Ahead
  • (adv.) Headlong

    Ai
  • (n.) The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America.

    Air
  • (n.) Air in motion

    Alarm
  • (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention
  • (v. t.) To call to arms for defense

    Alfalfa
  • (n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa)

    Alive
  • (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings

    All
  • (a.) Any.
  • (adv.) Even
  • (conj.) Although
  • (n.) The whole number, quantity, or amount

    Almost
  • (adv.) Nearly

    Alone
  • (a.) Hence
  • (adv.) Solely

    Along
  • (adv.) By the length
  • (prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across.

    Aloof
  • (adv.) At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance
  • (prep.) Away from

    Already
  • (adv.) Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future

    Also
  • (adv. & conj.) Even as

    Although
  • (conj.) Grant all this

    Always
  • (adv.) At all times

    American
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to America
  • (n.) A native of America

    An
  • (conj.) If

    Ancient
  • (a.) Dignified, like an aged man
  • (n.) An aged man

    And
  • (conj.) A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence

    Anger
  • (n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury
  • (v. t.) To excite to anger

    Angrily
  • (adv.) In an angry manner

    Angry
  • (superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

    Another
  • (pron. & a.) Any or some

    Answer
  • (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings
  • (v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition.

    Any
  • (a. & pron.) One indifferently, out of an indefinite number
  • (adv.) To any extent

    Anybody
  • (n.) Any one out of an indefinite number of persons

    Anything
  • (adv.) In any measure
  • (n.) Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever

    Anyways
  • (adv.) Anywise

    Apologetically
  • (adv.) By way of apology.

    Apple
  • (n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple
  • (v. i.) To grow like an apple

    Appreciation
  • (n.) Accurate perception

    Apprehension
  • (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable

    Apprehensive
  • (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming

    Approaching
  • (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock

    Approval
  • (n.) Approbation

    Apron
  • (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

    Arch
  • (a.) Chief
  • (n.) A chief.
  • (v. i.) To form into an arch
  • (v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches.

    Are
  • (n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length

    Arm
  • (n.) A branch of a tree.
  • (v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance

    Arms
  • (n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with

    Arose
  • (imp.) of Arise

    Around
  • (adv.) In a circle
  • (prep.) From one part to another of

    Arouse
  • (v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest

    As
  • (adv. & conj.) As if
  • (n.) An ace.

    Ash
  • (n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F
  • (v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

    Ashamedly
  • (adv.) Bashfully.

    Ashes
  • (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay

    Ask
  • (n.) A water newt.
  • (v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request
  • (v. t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning

    Asleep
  • (a. & adv.) In a state of sleep

    At
  • (prep.) A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something

    Ate
  • (imp.) of Eat
  • (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly

    Attack
  • (n.) An access of disease
  • (v. i.) To make an onset or attack.
  • (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing

    Attempt
  • (n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor
  • (v. i.) To make an attempt
  • (v. t.) To attack

    Attention
  • (n.) An act of civility or courtesy

    Attract
  • (n.) Attraction.
  • (v. t.) To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind

    Auburn
  • (a.) Flaxen-colored.

    Aunt
  • (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

    Authority
  • (n.) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.

    Automatically
  • (adv.) In an automatic manner.

    Averted
  • (a.) Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling

    Away
  • (adv.) Absent

    Awful
  • (a.) Frightful

    Baby
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant
  • (n.) An infant or young child of either sex
  • (v. i.) To treat like a young child

    Back
  • (a.) Being at the back or in the rear
  • (adv.) (Of time) In times past
  • (n.) A ferryboat.
  • (v. i.) To adjoin behind

    Bacon
  • (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked

    Bad
  • (imp.) Bade.
  • (superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral

    Bag
  • (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack
  • (v. i.) To become pregnant.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

    Bait
  • (v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

    Bald
  • (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn

    Bale
  • (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation

    Ball
  • (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air
  • (v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay
  • (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball

    Ban
  • (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service
  • (v. i.) To curse
  • (v. t.) To curse

    Bank
  • (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley
  • (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank
  • (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.

    Bar
  • (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation

    Barely
  • (adv.) But just

    Barley
  • (n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky

    Barn
  • (n.) A child.
  • (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

    Barrel
  • (n.) A jar.
  • (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

    Baseball
  • (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball

    Bastard
  • (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony
  • (n.) A "natural" child
  • (v. t.) To bastardize.

    Be
  • (v. i.) To exist actually, or in the world of fact

    Beak
  • (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy

    Beam
  • (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving
  • (v. i.) To emit beams of light.
  • (v. t.) To send forth

    Bean
  • (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos

    Bear
  • (n.) A bier.
  • (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else
  • (v. t.) To admit or be capable of

    Beat
  • (a.) Weary
  • (imp.) of Beat
  • (n.) A recurring stroke
  • (p. p.) of Beat
  • (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade
  • (v. t.) To cheat

    Beauty
  • (n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.

    Became
  • (imp.) of Become

    Because
  • (conj.) By or for the cause that

    Become
  • (p. p.) of Become
  • (v. i.) To come
  • (v. t.) To suit or be suitable to

    Bed
  • (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed
  • (v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

    Bedding
  • (n.) A bed and its furniture

    Been
  • (p. p.) of Be

    Before
  • (adv.) Earlier
  • (prep.) An advance of

    Began
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Begin

    Behind
  • (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement
  • (adv.) After the departure of another
  • (n.) The backside

    Being
  • (adv.) Since
  • (n.) An abode
  • (p. pr.) Existing.

    Believe
  • (n.) To exercise belief in
  • (v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion

    Belligerently
  • (adv.) In a belligerent manner

    Belly
  • (n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines
  • (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly
  • (v. t.) To cause to swell out

    Belong
  • (v. i.) To be a part of, or connected with
  • (v. t.) To be deserved by.

    Belt
  • (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other
  • (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt

    Bench
  • (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public
  • (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with benches.

    Bent
  • (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight
  • (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp
  • (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

    Bere
  • (n.) Barley
  • (v. t.) To pierce.

    Berry
  • (n.) A mound
  • (v. i.) To bear or produce berries.

    Beside
  • (adv.) More than that
  • (n.) Aside from

    Best
  • (a.) Having good qualities in the highest degree
  • (n.) Utmost
  • (superl.) In the highest degree
  • (v. t.) To get the better of.

    Bet
  • (a. & adv.) An early form of Better.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bet
  • (n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue
  • (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue

    Better
  • (a.) Greater in amount
  • (compar.) In a higher or greater degree
  • (n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory
  • (v. i.) To become better

    Between
  • (n.) Intermediate time or space
  • (prep.) Belonging in common to two

    Bewildered
  • (a.) Greatly perplexed

    Beyond
  • (adv.) Further away
  • (prep.) At a place or time not yet reached

    Big
  • (superl.) Great with young

    Biggest
  • (a.) superl. of Big.

    Bill
  • (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
  • (v. i.) To join bills, as doves
  • (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

    Bind
  • (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
  • (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

    Bird
  • (n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings.
  • (v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder

    Bit
  • (imp.) of Bite
  • (n.) In the British West Indies, a fourpenny piece, or groat.
  • (v.) A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth
  • (v. t.) To put a bridle upon

    Bitch
  • (n.) An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

    Bite
  • (v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper
  • (v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation
  • (v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to

    Black
  • (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it
  • (adv.) Sullenly
  • (n.) A black garment or dress

    Blame
  • (v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong
  • (v. t.) To bring reproach upon

    Blanket
  • (a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing
  • (v. t.) To cover with a blanket.

    Blankly
  • (adv.) Directly

    Blaze
  • (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality
  • (v. i.) To be resplendent.
  • (v. t.) To designate by blazing

    Blew
  • (imp.) of Blow

    Blind
  • (a.) Abortive
  • (n.) A blindage.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel

    Blood
  • (n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
  • (v. t.) To bleed.

    Blow
  • (n.) A blossom
  • (v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind
  • (v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion

    Blue
  • (n.) A pedantic woman
  • (pl.) Low spirits
  • (superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker
  • (v. t.) To make blue

    Board
  • (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness
  • (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
  • (v. t.) To approach

    Body
  • (n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body

    Boil
  • (n.) Act or state of boiling.
  • (v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point
  • (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation

    Bone
  • (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  • (v. t.) To fertilize with bone.

    Bony
  • (a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones

    Booby
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of a booby
  • (n.) A dunce

    Book
  • (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together
  • (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

    Boots
  • (n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

    Boring
  • (n.) A hole made by boring.

    Born
  • (p. p.) of Bear
  • (v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal

    Boss
  • (n.) A head or reservoir of water.
  • (v. t.) To ornament with bosses

    Both
  • (a. or pron.) The one and the other
  • (conj.) As well

    Bottle
  • (n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.
  • (v. t.) To put into bottles

    Bottom
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom
  • (n.) A ball or skein of thread
  • (v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder
  • (v. t.) To found or build upon

    Bounce
  • (adv.) With a sudden leap
  • (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
  • (v. i.) To boast
  • (v. t.) To bully

    Bout
  • (n.) A conflict

    Box
  • (n.) A blow on the head or ear with the hand.
  • (v. i.) To fight with the fist
  • (v. t.) To boxhaul.

    Boy
  • (n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty
  • (v. t.) To act as a boy

    Brain
  • (n.) The affections
  • (v. t.) To conceive

    Brake
  • (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches
  • (v. t.) A baker's kneading though.

    Brass
  • (n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc

    Brawn
  • (n.) A boar.

    Break
  • (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties
  • (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction.

    Breathless
  • (a.) Dead

    Breeze
  • (n.) A light, gentle wind
  • (v. i.) To blow gently.

    Bright
  • (a.) Having a clear, quick intellect
  • (adv.) Brightly.
  • (n.) Splendor
  • (v. t.) To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.

    Brilliant
  • (a.) A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant
  • (p. pr.) Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration

    Brim
  • (a.) Fierce
  • (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it
  • (v. i.) To be full to the brim.
  • (v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

    Bring
  • (v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of

    Bristly
  • (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles

    Brittle
  • (a.) Easily broken

    broke
  • (imp.) of Break
  • (v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters

    Broom
  • (n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle

    Brought
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bring

    Brown
  • (n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow
  • (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
  • (v. i.) To become brown.
  • (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface

    Brush
  • (n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus
  • (v. i.) To move nimbly in haste

    Brutally
  • (adv.) In a brutal manner

    Buck
  • (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed
  • (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

    Buggy
  • (a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
  • (n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

    Build
  • (n.) Form or mode of construction
  • (v. i.) To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
  • (v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind

    Built
  • (a.) Formed
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Build
  • (n.) Shape

    Bull
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a bull
  • (n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
  • (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of

    Bum
  • (n.) A humming noise.
  • (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.

    Bunch
  • (n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together
  • (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance
  • (v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.

    Bunk
  • (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk

    Bunt
  • (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust
  • (v. i.) To swell out
  • (v. t. & i.) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it

    Burlap
  • (n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging

    Burned
  • (p. p.) Burnished.

    Burst
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Burst
  • (n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort
  • (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way
  • (v. t.) To break.

    Bus
  • (n.) An omnibus.

    Business
  • (n.) Affair

    Bust
  • (n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast

    But
  • (adv. & conj.) Except
  • (n.) A limit
  • (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house
  • (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering

    Butt
  • (n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
  • (v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity

    Buzz
  • (n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees
  • (v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings
  • (v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.

    By
  • (a.) Out of the common path
  • (adv.) Aside
  • (pref.) Against.

    Bye
  • (n.) A dwelling.

    Cage
  • (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals
  • (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage

    Calculating
  • (a.) Given to contrivance or forethought
  • (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.

    Call
  • (n.) A divine vocation or summons.
  • (v. i.) To make a brief visit
  • (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present

    Calm
  • (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance
  • (super.) Not stormy


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