| find | noun (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin. |
| | verb (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. |
| | verb (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. |
| | verb (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. |
| | verb (v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. |
| | verb (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. |
| behind | noun (n.) The backside; the rump. |
| | adjective (a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. |
| | adjective (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. |
| | adjective (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. |
| | adverb (adv.) At the back part; in the rear. |
| | adverb (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind. |
| | adverb (adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. |
| | adverb (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past. |
| | adverb (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind. |
| bind | noun (n.) That which binds or ties. |
| | noun (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine. |
| | noun (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. |
| | noun (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. |
| | verb (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part. |
| | verb (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. |
| | verb (v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. |
| | verb (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. |
| | verb (v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature. |
| | verb (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence. |
| blind | noun (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse. |
| | noun (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. |
| | noun (n.) A blindage. See Blindage. |
| | noun (n.) A halting place. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Blinde |
| | adjective (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. |
| | adjective (a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. |
| | adjective (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. |
| | adjective (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. |
| | adjective (a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. |
| | adjective (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. |
| | adjective (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. |
| | adjective (a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled. |
| grind | noun (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. |
| | noun (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. |
| | noun (n.) A hard student; a dig. |
| | verb (v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. |
| | verb (v. t.) To study hard for examination. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. |
| hind | noun (n.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag. |
| | noun (n.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind. |
| | noun (n.) A domestic; a servant. |
| | noun (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant. |
| | adjective (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession. |
| kind | adjective (a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition. |
| | adjective (a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. |
| | adjective (a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. |
| | superlative (superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. |
| | superlative (superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. |
| | superlative (superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. |
| | superlative (superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. |
| | superlative (superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beget. |
| mind | noun (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note. |
| | noun (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business. |
| | noun (n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master. |
| | noun (n.) To have in mind; to purpose. |
| | noun (n.) To put in mind; to remind. |
| | verb (v.) 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. |
| | verb (v.) 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. |
| | verb (v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will. |
| | verb (v.) Courage; spirit. |
| | verb (v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well. |
| wind | noun (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. |
| | noun (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. |
| | noun (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. |
| | noun (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. |
| | noun (n.) Power of respiration; breath. |
| | noun (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. |
| | noun (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent. |
| | noun (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds. |
| | noun (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. |
| | noun (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. |
| | noun (n.) The dotterel. |
| | noun (n.) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. |
| | verb (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. |
| | verb (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. |
| | verb (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds. |
| | verb (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. |
| bond | noun (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint. |
| | noun (n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship. |
| | noun (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation. |
| | noun (n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond. |
| | noun (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond. |
| | noun (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other. |
| | noun (n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. |
| | noun (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit. |
| | noun (n.) League; association; confederacy. |
| | adjective (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity. |
| bound | noun (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary. |
| | noun (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. |
| | noun (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball. |
| | noun (n.) Spring from one foot to the other. |
| | adjective (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like. |
| | adjective (p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume. |
| | adjective (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation. |
| | adjective (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail. |
| | adjective (p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it. |
| | adjective (p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive. |
| | verb (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. |
| | verb (v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. |
| | (imp.) of Bind |
| | (p. p.) of Bind |
| | () imp. & p. p. of Bind. |
