| chair | noun (n.) A movable single seat with a back. |
| | noun (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. |
| | noun (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. |
| | noun (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. |
| | noun (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in a chair. |
| | verb (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. |
| hair | noun (n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. |
| | noun (n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. |
| | noun (n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions. |
| | noun (n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. |
| | noun (n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar). |
| | noun (n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. |
| | noun (n.) A haircloth. |
| | noun (n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. |
| affair | noun (n.) That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. |
| | noun (n.) Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue. |
| | noun (n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle. |
| | noun (n.) Action; endeavor. |
| | noun (n.) A material object (vaguely designated). |
| air | noun (n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable. |
| | noun (n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. |
| | noun (n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air. |
| | noun (n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. |
| | noun (n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air. |
| | noun (n.) That which surrounds and influences. |
| | noun (n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. |
| | noun (n.) Intelligence; information. |
| | noun (n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria. |
| | noun (n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air. |
| | noun (n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. |
| | noun (n.) Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style. |
| | noun (n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. |
| | noun (n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. |
| | noun (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. |
| | noun (n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse. |
| | noun (n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. |
| | noun (n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. |
| | noun (n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors. |
| fair | noun (n.) Fairness, beauty. |
| | noun (n.) A fair woman; a sweetheart. |
| | noun (n.) Good fortune; good luck. |
| | noun (n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade. |
| | noun (n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair. |
| | noun (n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair. |
| | superlative (superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure. |
| | superlative (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. |
| | superlative (superl.) Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. |
| | superlative (superl.) Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view. |
| | superlative (superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines. |
| | superlative (superl.) Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. |
| | superlative (superl.) Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc. |
| | superlative (superl.) Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting. |
| | superlative (superl.) Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen. |
| | adverb (adv.) Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make fair or beautiful. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines. |
| pair | noun (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.] |
| | noun (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes. |
| | noun (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen. |
| | noun (n.) A married couple; a man and wife. |
| | noun (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows. |
| | noun (n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. |
| | noun (n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding. |
| | verb (v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. |
| | verb (v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another. |
| | verb (v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impair. |
| | () A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current. |
| repair | noun (n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place. |
| | noun (n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort. |
| | noun (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city. |
| | noun (n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair. |
| | verb (v. i.) To return. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety. |
| | verb (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage. |
| nation | noun (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. |
| | noun (n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. |
| | noun (n.) Family; lineage. |
| | noun (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. |
| | noun (n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity. |
| | noun (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs. |
| nationality | noun (n.) The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism. |
| | noun (n.) The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character. |
| | noun (n.) A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. |
| | noun (n.) Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity. |
| | noun (n.) The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc. |
| native | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France. |
| | noun (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. |
| | adjective (a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries. |
| | adjective (a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust. |
| | adjective (a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). |
| | adjective (a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver. |
| | adjective (a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride. |
| natural | noun (n.) A native; an aboriginal. |
| | noun (n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc. |
| | noun (n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. |
| | noun (n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note. |
| | adjective (a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. |
| | adjective (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death. |
| | adjective (a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology. |
| | adjective (a.) Conformed to truth or reality |
| | adjective (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. |
| | adjective (a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity. |
| | adjective (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. |
| | adjective (a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major. |
| | adjective (a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. |
| naturalism | noun (n.) A state of nature; conformity to nature. |
| | noun (n.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. |
| | noun (n.) The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. |
| | noun (n.) Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. |
| nature | noun (n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. |
| | noun (n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. |
| | noun (n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect. |
| | noun (n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience. |
| | noun (n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality. |
| | noun (n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life. |
| | noun (n.) Natural affection or reverence. |
| | noun (n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character. |
| | verb (v. t.) To endow with natural qualities. |
