leach | noun (n.) See 3d Leech. |
| noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. |
| noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. |
| noun (n.) See Leech, a physician. |
| verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. |
| verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. |
| verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. |
breach | noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. |
| noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. |
| noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. |
| noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. |
| noun (n.) A bruise; a wound. |
| noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture. |
| noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. |
| verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
impeach | noun (n.) Hindrance; impeachment. |
| verb (v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent. |
| verb (v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. |
| verb (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. |
reach | noun (n.) An effort to vomit. |
| noun (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. |
| noun (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. |
| noun (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. |
| noun (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. |
| noun (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage. |
| noun (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. |
| verb (v. i.) To retch. |
| verb (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. |
| verb (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. |
| verb (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. |
| verb (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend. |
| verb (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive. |
| verb (v. i.) To stretch out the hand. |
| verb (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts. |
| verb (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. |
| verb (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. |
attach | noun (n.) An attachment. |
| verb (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. |
| verb (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship. |
| verb (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery. |
| verb (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. |
| verb (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of. |
| verb (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. |
| verb (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached. |
| verb (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. |
approach | noun (n.) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. |
| verb (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. |
| verb (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. |
| verb (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. |
| verb (v. t.) To take approaches to. |
| verb (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. |
| verb (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near. |
| verb (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances. |
| verb (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. |
| verb (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. |
| verb (v. i.) See Approaching. |
broach | noun (n.) A spit. |
| noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. |
| noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. |
| noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. |
| noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting. |
| noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower. |
| noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. |
| noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. |
| noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. |
| noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. |
| noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit. |
| noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. |
| noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores. |
| noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. |
| noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out. |
| noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. |
| noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. |
coach | noun (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. |
| noun (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. |
| noun (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. |
| noun (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car. |
| verb (v. t.) To convey in a coach. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. |
| verb (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with |
poach | noun (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. |
| noun (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. |
| verb (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. |
| verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. |
| verb (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything. |
| verb (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling |
| verb (v. t.) To begin and not complete. |
| verb (v. i.) To become soft or muddy. |
stomach | noun (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric. |
| noun (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. |
| noun (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. |
| noun (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. |
| noun (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. |
| verb (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. |
| verb (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. |
| verb (v. i.) To be angry. |
caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
| noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. |
| noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. |
| noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. |
| noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. |
| noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. |
| noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
cartouch | noun (n.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge |
| noun (n.) A cartridge box. |
| noun (n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. |
| noun (n.) A gunner's bag for ammunition |
| noun (n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough. |
| noun (n.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper |
| noun (n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form. |
| noun (n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. |
catch | noun (n.) Act of seizing; a grasp. |
| noun (n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate. |
| noun (n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch. |
| noun (n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. |
| noun (n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. |
| noun (n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches. |
| noun (n.) A slight remembrance; a trace. |
| noun (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. |
| verb (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. |
| verb (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle. |
| verb (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. |
| verb (v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building. |
| verb (v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm. |
| verb (v. t.) To get possession of; to attain. |
| verb (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire. |
| verb (v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing. |
| verb (v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. |
| verb (v. i.) To attain possession. |
| verb (v. i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open. |
| verb (v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch. |
| verb (v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate. |