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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
clack | noun (n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. |
| noun (n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. |
| verb (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object. |
| verb (v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve. |
| verb (v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating. |
claim | noun (n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact. |
| noun (n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. |
| noun (n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim. |
| noun (n.) A loud call. |
| verb (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. |
| verb (v./.) To proclaim. |
| verb (v./.) To call or name. |
| verb (v./.) To assert; to maintain. |
| verb (v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. |
clam | noun (n.) Claminess; moisture. |
| noun (n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. |
| verb (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. |
| verb (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps. |
| verb (v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. |
| verb (v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. |
| verb (v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. |
clamp | noun (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together. |
| noun (n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. |
| noun (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. |
| noun (n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising. |
| noun (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams. |
| noun (n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking. |
| noun (n.) A mollusk. See Clam. |
| noun (n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp. |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth. |
| verb (v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. |
clap | noun (n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang. |
| noun (n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion. |
| noun (n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. |
| noun (n.) A striking of hands to express approbation. |
| noun (n.) Noisy talk; chatter. |
| noun (n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk. |
| noun (n.) Gonorrhea. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. |
| verb (v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon. |
| verb (v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance. |
| verb (v. t.) To express contempt or derision. |
| verb (v. i.) To knock, as at a door. |
| verb (v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause. |
| verb (v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise. |
| verb (v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into. |
| verb (v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly. |
clinch | noun (n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch. |
| noun (n.) A pun. |
| noun (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. |
| verb (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. |
| verb (v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. |
| verb (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail. |
| verb (v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. |
| verb (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another. |
clutch | noun (n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. |
| noun (n.) The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. |
| noun (n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure. |
| noun (n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. |
| noun (n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird. |
| noun (n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power. |
| noun (n.) To close tightly; to clinch. |
| verb (v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. |