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Take
  • (n.) That which is taken
  • (p. p.) Taken.
  • (v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph
  • (v. t.) In an active sense

    Taking
  • (a.) Apt to take
  • (n.) Agitation

    Talk
  • (n.) Report
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.

    Tall
  • (superl.) Brave

    Tangle
  • (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina.
  • (v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged
  • (v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly

    Tar
  • (n.) A sailor
  • (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar

    Tart
  • (n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve

    Tattered
  • (p. p.) of Tatter

    Team
  • (n.) A flock of wild ducks.
  • (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc
  • (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team

    Teeth
  • (n.) pl. of Tooth.
  • (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.

    Tell
  • (n.) A hill or mound.
  • (v. i.) To give an account
  • (v. t.) To discern so as to report

    Temple
  • (n.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
  • (v. t.) To build a temple for

    Ten
  • (a.) One more than nine
  • (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.

    Tend
  • (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose
  • (v. i.) To await
  • (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector

    Tenement
  • (n.) A dwelling house

    Tense
  • (a.) Stretched tightly
  • (n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified

    Termer
  • (n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

    Terrible
  • (a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread

    Terrier
  • (n.) An auger or borer.

    Terror
  • (n.) Extreme fear

    Than
  • (adv.) Then.
  • (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like

    That
  • (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun

    The
  • (adv.) By that
  • (definite article.) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

    Their
  • (pron. & a.) The possessive case of the personal pronoun they

    Them
  • (pron.) The objective case of they.

    Then
  • (adv.) At another time
  • (conj.) In that case

    There
  • (pron.) In or at that place.

    These
  • (pron.) The plural of this.

    They
  • (obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed

    Thick
  • (adv.) Closely
  • (n.) A thicket
  • (superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space
  • (v. t. & i.) To thicken.

    Thin
  • (adv.) Not thickly or closely
  • (superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite
  • (v. i.) To grow or become thin
  • (v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

    Thirsty
  • (n.) Deficient in moisture

    Thirty
  • (a.) Being three times ten
  • (n.) A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.

    This
  • (pron. & a.) As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned

    Thong
  • (n.) A strap of leather

    Those
  • (pron.) The plural of that.

    Though
  • (adv.) However
  • (conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that

    Thread
  • (n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark
  • (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in

    Three
  • (a.) One more than two
  • (n.) A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.

    Threw
  • (imp.) of Throw

    Through
  • (a.) Going or extending through
  • (adv.) From beginning to end
  • (prep.) Among or in the midst of

    Throw
  • (n.) A cast of dice
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting
  • (v. t.) To bring forth

    Thud
  • (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance
  • (v. i. & t.) To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.

    Thumb
  • (n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges
  • (v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs
  • (v. t.) To handle awkwardly.

    Tick
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals
  • (v. i.) To give tick
  • (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark

    Tie
  • (v. i.) To make a tie
  • (v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together

    Tight
  • (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid
  • (v. t.) To tighten.

    Till
  • (conj.) As far as
  • (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers
  • (prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate
  • (v. i.) To cultivate land.
  • (v. t.) To

    Time
  • (n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future
  • (v. i.) To keep or beat time
  • (v. t.) To appoint the time for

    Tin
  • (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated
  • (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

    Tiny
  • (superl.) Very small

    To
  • (prep.) Accompaniment
  • (prep.) Apposition

    Toe
  • (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved
  • (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
  • (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes

    Together
  • (prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time

    Tol
  • (v. t.) To take away.

    Told
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Tell

    Tomorrow
  • (adv.) On the day after the present day
  • (n.) The day after the present

    Tone
  • (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
  • (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

    Tonight
  • (adv.) On the last night past.
  • (n.) The present or the coming night

    Too
  • (adv.) Likewise

    Took
  • (imp.) of Take

    Top
  • (n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out
  • (v. i.) To excel
  • (v. t.) To arrange, as fruit, with the best on top.

    Topmost
  • (a.) Highest

    Torture
  • (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel
  • (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

    Touch
  • (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
  • (n.) A boys' game
  • (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
  • (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of

    Tough
  • (superl.) Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness

    Town
  • (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead

    Trace
  • (n.) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, esp
  • (v. i.) To walk
  • (v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists

    Trail
  • (n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region
  • (v. i.) To be drawn out in length
  • (v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle

    Tramp
  • (n.) A foot journey or excursion
  • (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

    Trap
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock
  • (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids
  • (v. i.) To set traps for game

    Travel
  • (n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey
  • (v. i.) To go or march on foot
  • (v. t.) To force to journey.

    Tree
  • (n.) A cross or gallows
  • (v. t.) To drive to a tree

    Triangle
  • (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

    Tried
  • (adj.) Proved

    Trigger
  • (n.) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

    Trim
  • (n.) Dress
  • (v. i.) To balance
  • (v. t.) Fitly adjusted

    Triumph
  • (n.) A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy
  • (v. t.) To obtain a victory over

    Trouble
  • (a.) Troubled
  • (v. t.) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

    Trousers
  • (n. pl.) A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately

    True
  • (a.) Genuine
  • (adv.) In accordance with truth
  • (n.) Actual

    Truth
  • (n.) A true thing
  • (v. t.) To assert as true

    Try
  • (n.) Act of trying
  • (v. i.) To do
  • (v. t.) Refined

    Trying
  • (a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial

    Turn
  • (n.) A change of condition
  • (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support
  • (v. t.) Hence, to give form to

    Twentieth
  • (a.) Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The next in order after the nineteen

    Twenty
  • (a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.
  • (n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.

    Twinkling
  • (n.) A shining with intermitted light

    Twisted
  • (a.) Contorted

    Two
  • (n.) A symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii.

    Under
  • (a.) Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree
  • (adv.) In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition
  • (prep.) Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered

    Until
  • (conj.) As far as
  • (prep.) To

    Up
  • (a.) Inclining up
  • (adv.) Aloft
  • (n.) The state of being up or above
  • (prep.) From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along

    Upright
  • (a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.
  • (n.) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins

    Upside
  • (n.) The upper side

    Urn
  • (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained
  • (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn

    Us
  • (pron.) The persons speaking, regarded as an object

    Use
  • (v. i.) To be accustomed to go
  • (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging

    Usual
  • (n.) Such as is in common use

    Valley
  • (n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.

    Vaseline
  • (n.) A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series

    Vegetable
  • (n.) A plant.
  • (v.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants

    Velvet
  • (a.) Made of velvet
  • (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back
  • (v. i.) To pain velvet.
  • (v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.

    Very
  • (adv.) In a high degree
  • (v. t.) True

    Vest
  • (n.) An article of clothing covering the person
  • (v. i.) To come or descend

    Victory
  • (n.) The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest

    Violently
  • (adv.) In a violent manner.

    Visible
  • (a.) Noticeable

    Voice
  • (n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses
  • (v. i.) To clamor
  • (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds

    Wagon
  • (n.) A chariot
  • (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business
  • (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons

    Wait
  • (v. i.) Ambush.
  • (v. t.) To attend as a consequence

    Walk
  • (n.) A frequented track
  • (v. i.) To behave
  • (v. t.) To cause to walk

    Wall
  • (n.) A defense
  • (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

    Want
  • (v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
  • (v. t.) To be without

    Warm
  • (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to
  • (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed
  • (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances
  • (v. i.) To become ardent or animated

    Was
  • (imp.) of Be
  • (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense

    Wash
  • (a.) Capable of being washed without injury
  • (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
  • (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed
  • (v. t.) To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide

    Watch
  • (n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty
  • (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring
  • (v. t.) To give heed to

    Water
  • (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing
  • (v. i.) To get or take in water
  • (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted

    Wave
  • (n.) Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion
  • (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest

    Way
  • (adv.) Away.
  • (n.) A moving
  • (v. i.) To move
  • (v. t.) To go or travel to

    We
  • (obj.) The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person

    Weak
  • (a.) Lacking contrast
  • (v. i.) Deficient in strength of body

    Wear
  • (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like
  • (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used
  • (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person

    Wedge
  • (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
  • (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge

    Weed
  • (n.) A garment
  • (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

    Well
  • (a.) Being in favor
  • (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market
  • (v. t.) Considerably

    Welter
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting
  • (n.) A rising or falling, as of waves
  • (v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves

    Went
  • (imp.) of Go
  • (n.) Course

    Were
  • (n.) A fine for slaying a man
  • (v. t.) To guard
  • (v. t. & i.) To wear.

    Western
  • (a.) Moving toward the west

    Wet
  • (a.) A dram
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wet
  • (superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid
  • (v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid

    What
  • (interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?
  • (n.) Something
  • (pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word:—(a) Used absolutely or independently

    Wheeled
  • (a.) Having wheels

    Wheeler
  • (n.) A maker of wheels

    When
  • (adv.) At what time

    Where
  • (adv.) At or in what place
  • (conj.) Whereas.
  • (n.) Place
  • (pron. & conj.) Whether.

    Whether
  • (conj.) In case
  • (pron.) Which (of two)

    Which
  • (a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class
  • (pron.) A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the

    While
  • (conj.) During the time that
  • (n.) Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short
  • (prep.) Until
  • (v. i.) To loiter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust

    Whip
  • (n.) Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions
  • (v. i.) To move nimbly
  • (v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken

    Whisky
  • (n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion

    Whisper
  • (n.) A cautious or timorous speech.
  • (v. i.) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand
  • (v. t.) To address in a whisper, or low voice.

    Whit
  • (n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable

    Who
  • (object.) Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also
  • (pron.) One

    Whole
  • (a.) Complete
  • (n.) A regular combination of parts

    Whom
  • (pron.) The objective case of who.

    Whore
  • (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire
  • (v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse

    Why
  • (adv.) For what cause, reason, or purpose
  • (n.) A young heifer.

    Wide
  • (a.) Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc
  • (adv.) So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose
  • (n.) That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.
  • (superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.

    Wife
  • (n.) A woman

    Wild
  • (adv.) Wildly
  • (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region
  • (superl.) Desert

    Will
  • (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise
  • (n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition
  • (v.) Arbitrary disposal
  • (v. i.) To be willing

    Win
  • (a.) To allure to kindness
  • (v. i.) To gain the victory

    Wind
  • (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow
  • (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other
  • (v. t.) To blow

    Winter
  • (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter

    Wire
  • (n.) A knitting needle.
  • (v. i.) To pass like a wire
  • (v. t.) To bind with wire

    Wise
  • (v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom

    Wish
  • (n.) A thing desired
  • (v. t.) To desire

    With
  • (prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility

    Woe
  • (a.) Woeful
  • (n.) A curse

    Woman
  • (n.) A female attendant or servant.
  • (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in

    Won
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Win
  • (n.) Dwelling
  • (v. i.) To dwell or abide.

    Wonder
  • (a.) Wonderful.
  • (adv.) Wonderfully.
  • (n.) A cause of wonder
  • (v. i.) To be affected with surprise or admiration

    Wood
  • (a.) Mad
  • (n.) A large and thick collection of trees
  • (v. i.) To grow mad
  • (v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for

    Word
  • (n.) A brief remark or observation
  • (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion
  • (v. t.) To express in words

    Wore
  • (imp.) of Wear

    Work
  • (n.) Break
  • (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor.

    World
  • (n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests

    Worn
  • (p. p.) of Wear

    Worry
  • (n.) A state of undue solicitude
  • (v. i.) To feel or express undue care and anxiety
  • (v. t.) To harass by pursuit and barking

    Worse
  • (a.) In a worse degree
  • (compar.) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree
  • (n.) Loss
  • (v. t.) To make worse

    Worst
  • (a.) Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense.
  • (n.) That which is most bad or evil
  • (v. i.) To grow worse

    Worth
  • (a.) Deserving of
  • (v. i.) To be

    Would
  • (imp.) of Will
  • (v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present

    Wrinkle
  • (n.) A notion or fancy
  • (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

    Wrist
  • (n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal

    Write
  • (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting
  • (v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

    Writhed
  • (imp.) of Writhe
  • (p. p.) of Writhe

    Wrong
  • (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward
  • (adv.) In a wrong manner
  • (v. t.) To impute evil to unjustly

    Wrote
  • (imp.) of Write
  • (v. i.) To root with the snout.

    Y
  • (n.) A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.
  • (pron.) I.

    Ya
  • (adv.) Yea.

    Yard
  • (n.) An inclosure
  • (v. i.) A branch
  • (v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard

    Ye
  • (adv.) Yea
  • (n.) An eye.
  • (pron.) The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case.

    Year
  • (n.) Age, or old age

    Yell
  • (n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
  • (v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise
  • (v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell

    Yes
  • (adv.) Ay

    Yet
  • (adv.) At the same time
  • (conj.) Before some future time
  • (n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba

    Yon
  • (a.) At a distance, but within view
  • (adv.) Yonder.


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