| bead | noun (n.) A prayer. |
| | noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. |
| | noun (n.) Any small globular body |
| | noun (n.) A bubble in spirits. |
| | noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. |
| | noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). |
| | noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. |
| | noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
| beak | noun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. |
| | noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. |
| | noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. |
| | noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. |
| | noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. |
| | noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. |
| | noun (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; a beakhead. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. |
| | noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. |
| | noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. |
| | noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.). |
| | noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman. |
| beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| | noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
| | noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. |
| | noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
| | noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
| | noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. |
| | noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. |
| | noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
| | noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. |
| | noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. |
| | noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. |
| | verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. |
| | verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
| bearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
| | noun (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. |
| | noun (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. |
| | noun (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. |
| | noun (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. |
| | noun (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. |
| | noun (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall. |
| | noun (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
| | noun (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. |
| | noun (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. |
| | noun (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
| | noun (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
| | noun (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. |
| | noun (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
| | noun (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
| bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
| | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. |
| | noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. |
| | noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
| | noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
| | noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
| | noun (n.) A portable punching machine. |
| | noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Bere |
| | verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. |
| | verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. |
| | verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. |
| | verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. |
| | verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. |
| | verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor |
| | verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To gain or win. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. |
| | verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. |
| | verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. |
| | verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
| | verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. |
| | verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. |
| | verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. |
| | verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
| | verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. |
| | verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. |
| | verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. |
| | verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
| beard | noun (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| | noun (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. |
| | noun (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds |
| | noun (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. |
| | noun (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. |
| | noun (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. |
| | noun (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. |
| | noun (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. |
| | noun (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. |
| | noun (n.) An imposition; a trick. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. |
| | verb (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
| back | noun (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1. |
| | noun (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster. |
| | noun (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. |
| | noun (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail. |
| | noun (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney. |
| | noun (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw. |
| | noun (n.) A support or resource in reserve. |
| | noun (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship. |
| | noun (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage. |
| | noun (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing. |
| | adjective (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements. |
| | adjective (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent. |
| | adjective (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action. |
| | verb (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount. |
| | verb (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books. |
| | verb (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. |
| | verb (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document. |
| | verb (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. |
| | verb (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind. |
| | verb (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog. |
| | adverb (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back. |
| | adverb (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it. |
| | adverb (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism. |
| | adverb (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago. |
| | adverb (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement. |
| | adverb (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another. |
| | adverb (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance. |
| | adverb (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital. |
| | adverb (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words. |
| | adverb (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent. |
| bank | noun (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. |
| | noun (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. |
| | noun (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
| | noun (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. |
| | noun (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. |
| | noun (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
| | noun (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
| | noun (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. |
| | noun (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. |
| | noun (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
| | noun (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. |
| | noun (n.) A sort of table used by printers. |
| | noun (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
| | noun (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. |
| | noun (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. |
| | noun (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. |
| | noun (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. |
| | noun (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
| | noun (n.) A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45¡ is easy; a bank of 90¡ is dangerous. |
| | verb (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. |
| | verb (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. |
| | verb (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. |
| | verb (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. |
| | verb (v. i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like. |
| black | noun (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. |
| | noun (n.) A black pigment or dye. |
| | noun (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. |
| | noun (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black |
| | noun (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. |
| | noun (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch. |
| | adjective (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. |
| | adjective (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. |
| | adjective (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. |
| | adjective (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. |
| | adjective (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. |
| | adjective (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. |
| | adverb (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness. |
| blank | noun (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. |
| | noun (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. |
| | noun (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. |
| | noun (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. |
| | noun (n.) Aim; shot; range. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. |
| | noun (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." |
| | adjective (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color. |
| | adjective (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. |
| | adjective (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited. |
| | adjective (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. |
| | adjective (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness. |
| | adjective (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. |
| | adjective (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make void; to annul. |
| | verb (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. |
| block | noun (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. |
| | noun (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. |
| | noun (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. |
| | noun (n.) In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors. |
| | noun (n.) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket. |
| | noun (n.) A block hole. |
| | noun (n.) The popping crease. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. |
| | verb (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. |
| | verb (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat. |
| | verb (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops. |
| | verb (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. |
| | verb (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles. |
| | verb (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. |
| | verb (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. |
| | verb (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. |
| | verb (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. |
| book | noun (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. |
| | noun (n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise. |
| | noun (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost." |
| | noun (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. |
| | verb (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list. |
| | verb (v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. |
| break | noun (n.) See Commutator. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. |
| | verb (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. |
| | verb (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set. |
| | verb (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill. |
| | verb (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax. |
| | verb (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. |
| | verb (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. |
| | verb (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. |
| | verb (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. |
| | verb (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. |
| | verb (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. |
| | verb (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship. |
| | verb (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. |
| | verb (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship. |
| | verb (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. |
| | verb (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. |
| | verb (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation. |
| | verb (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn. |
| | verb (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. |
| | verb (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
| brick | noun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. |
| | noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. |
| | noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). |
| | noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. |
| buck | noun (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
| | noun (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. |
| | noun (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. |
| | noun (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. |
| | noun (n.) A male Indian or negro. |
| | noun (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. |
| | noun (n.) The beech tree. |
| | verb (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores. |
| | verb (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does. |
| | verb (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule. |
| | verb (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. |
| | verb (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
