COLT
First name COLT's origin is English. COLT means "from the dark town". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with COLT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of colt.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with COLT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming COLT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES COLT AS A WHOLE:
colten colter coltere coltrane coltonNAMES RHYMING WITH COLT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (olt) - Names That Ends with olt:
holt kolt morholtRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (lt) - Names That Ends with lt:
mahault jilt roosevelt vanderbilt tibalt gerwalt ranalt raoghnailt aralt archambault berowalt galahault geralt harailt roswalt sigwalt tibault tihalt tybalt walt galahalt yseult galtNAMES RHYMING WITH COLT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (col) - Names That Begins with col:
colan colbert colbey colbi colby cole coleen coleman colemann colene colesha coleta coletta colette coletun coley colfre colier colin colina colis colla colle colleem colleen collena collene colletta collette collier collin collins collis collyer collyn colm colman colmcilla colmcille colquhoun colson colum columbanus columbine columbo colver colvert colvyr colwyn colyer colyn colysRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (co) - Names That Begins with co:
coatl coaxoch cobhan coburn coby cochava cocheta cochise cochlain cocidius coco cocytus codee codell codey codi codie codier codrin codruta cody codyr coeus cofahealh coghlan cohen coigleach coilin coillcumhann coilleach coinleain coinneach coira coire coireail coman comfort comforte comhghan comyn comyna con conaire conal conall conan conant conaryNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COLT:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 't':
cait calbert calogrenant calvert camelot carlat cat ceit ceolbeorht chait charlot chet ciatlllait clarissant cleit clint clust cnut connacht corbett cort court creissant crescent culbart culbert curt cuthbeorht cuthbert cystEnglish Words Rhyming COLT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES COLT AS A WHOLE:
colt | noun (n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal. |
noun (n.) A young, foolish fellow. | |
noun (n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. | |
verb (v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. | |
verb (v. t.) To horse; to get with young. | |
verb (v. t.) To befool. |
colter | noun (n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. |
coltish | adjective (a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky. |
coltsfoot | noun (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COLT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (olt) - English Words That Ends with olt:
archivolt | noun (n.) The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening. |
noun (n.) More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged. |
baybolt | noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank. |
birdbolt | noun (n.) A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. |
noun (n.) Anything which smites without penetrating. |
bolt | noun (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. |
noun (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt. | |
noun (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. | |
noun (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key. | |
noun (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. | |
noun (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. | |
noun (n.) A bundle, as of oziers. | |
noun (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. | |
verb (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth. | |
verb (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. | |
verb (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food. | |
verb (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. | |
verb (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. | |
verb (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted. | |
verb (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party. | |
adverb (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. | |
verb (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt. | |
verb (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. | |
verb (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party. | |
verb (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out. | |
verb (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
buolt | noun (n.) Corrupted form Bolt. |
burbolt | noun (n.) A birdbolt. |
demivolt | noun (n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner. |
dogbolt | noun (n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. |
dolt | noun (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. |
verb (v. i.) To behave foolishly. |
dragbolt | noun (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. |
drawbolt | noun (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. |
driftbolt | noun (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts. |
drivebolt | noun (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. |
eyebolt | noun (n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head. |
hackbolt | noun (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon. |
holt | noun (n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. |
noun (n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. | |
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. |
jolt | noun (n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground. |
verb (v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers. |
kingbolt | noun (n.) A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts. |
kilovolt | noun (n.) A unit of electromotive force equal to one thousand volts. |
lavolt | noun (n.) Alt. of Lavolta |
megavolt | noun (n.) One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts. |
microvolt | noun (n.) A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt. |
molt | noun (n.) Alt. of Moult |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Moult | |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Moult | |
() imp. of Melt. |
nolt | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle. |
polt | noun (n.) A blow or thump. |
adjective (a.) Distorted. |
rejolt | noun (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. |
verb (v. t.) To jolt or shake again. |
revolt | noun (n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. |
noun (n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. | |
noun (n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. | |
noun (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. | |
noun (n.) A revolter. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. | |
verb (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings. |
ringbolt | noun (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye. |
setbolt | noun (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. |
noun (n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole. |
smolt | noun (n.) A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. |
thunderbolt | noun (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. |
noun (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. | |
noun (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. | |
noun (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone. |
tolt | noun (n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court. |
volt | noun (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks. |
noun (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. | |
noun (n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C. |
wringbolt | noun (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COLT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (col) - Words That Begins with col:
col | noun (n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge. |
colaborer | noun (n.) One who labors with another; an associate in labor. |
colander | noun (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like. |
colation | noun (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering. |
colatitude | noun (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees. |
colature | noun (n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. |
colbertine | noun (n.) A kind of lace. |
colchicine | noun (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia. |
colchicum | noun (n.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron. |
colcothar | noun (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis. |
cold | noun (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. |
noun (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. | |
noun (n.) Not pungent or acrid. | |
noun (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. | |
noun (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. | |
noun (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. | |
noun (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. | |
noun (n.) Not sensitive; not acute. | |
noun (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. | |
noun (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. | |
noun (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth. | |
noun (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. | |
noun (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. | |
verb (v. i.) To become cold. |
coldfinch | noun (n.) A British wagtail. |
coldish | adjective (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly. |
coldness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being cold. |
cole | noun (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed. |
colegoose | noun (n.) See Coalgoose. |
colemanite | noun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California. |
colemouse | noun (n.) See Coletit. |
coleopter | noun (n.) One of the Coleoptera. |
coleoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils. |
coleopteral | adjective (a.) Alt. of Coleopterous |
coleopterous | adjective (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera. |
coleopteran | noun (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera. |
coleopterist | noun (n.) One versed in the study of the Coleoptera. |
coleorhiza | noun (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. |
coleperch | noun (n.) A kind of small black perch. |
colera | noun (n.) Bile; choler. |
coleridgian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics. |
coleseed | noun (n.) The common rape or cole. |
coleslaw | noun (n.) A salad made of sliced cabbage. |
colestaff | noun (n.) See Colstaff. |
coletit | noun (n.) Alt. of Coaltit |
coleus | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. |
colewort | noun (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head. |
noun (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm. |
colfox | noun (n.) A crafty fox. |
colic | noun (n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries. |
colical | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. |
colicky | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder. |
colicroot | noun (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root. |
colin | noun (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite. |
coliseum | noun (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. |
colitis | noun (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis. |
collaborateur | noun (n.) See Collaborator. |
collaboration | noun (n.) The act of working together; united labor. |
collaborator | noun (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor. |
collagen | noun (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue. |
collagenous | adjective (a.) Containing or resembling collagen. |
collapsing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse |
collapse | noun (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. |
noun (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. | |
noun (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. | |
verb (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance. |
collapsion | noun (n.) Collapse. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COLT:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 't':
cabalist | noun (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. |
cabaret | noun (n.) A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. |
noun (n.) a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment. | |
noun (n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}. | |
noun (n.) In the United States, a cafe or restaurant where the guests are entertained by performers who dance or sing on the floor between the tables, after the practice of a certain class of French taverns; hence, an entertainment of this nature. |
cabinet | noun (n.) A hut; a cottage; a small house. |
noun (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. | |
noun (n.) A private room in which consultations are held. | |
noun (n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. | |
noun (n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: | |
noun (n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere. | |
noun (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. | |
adjective (a.) Suitable for a cabinet; small. | |
verb (v. i.) To inclose |
cablet | noun (n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference. |
cabriolet | noun (n.) A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top. |
cabrit | noun (n.) Same as Cabree. |
cachalot | noun (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale. |
cachepot | noun (n.) An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc. |
cachet | noun (n.) A seal, as of a letter. |
cacolet | noun (n.) A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army. |
cadbait | noun (n.) See Caddice. |
cadent | adjective (a.) Falling. |
cadet | noun (n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. |
noun (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission. | |
noun (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich. | |
noun (n.) In New Zealand, a young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. | |
noun (n.) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. |
cafenet | noun (n.) Alt. of Cafeneh |
cagit | noun (n.) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands. |
cagot | noun (n.) One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths. |
cahoot | noun (n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person. |
cajeput | noun (n.) See Cajuput. |
cajolement | noun (n.) The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. |
cajuput | noun (n.) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste. |
calamint | noun (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme. |
calamist | noun (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe. |
calcitrant | adjective (a.) Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory. |
calefacient | noun (n.) A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard. |
adjective (a.) Making warm; heating. |
caliduct | noun (n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. |
callat | noun (n.) Same as Callet. |
callet | noun (n.) A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. |
verb (v. i.) To rail or scold. |
calligraphist | noun (n.) A calligrapher |
callot | noun (n.) A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. |
noun (n.) A close cap without visor or brim. | |
noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. | |
noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. | |
noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. |
caloriduct | noun (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct. |
calorifacient | adjective (a.) See Calorificient. |
calorifiant | adjective (a.) See Calorificient. |
calorificient | adjective (a.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation. |
calumet | noun (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. |
calvessnout | noun (n.) Snapdragon. |
calvinist | noun (n.) A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism. |
cambist | noun (n.) A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange. |
camblet | noun (n.) See Camlet. |
camelot | noun (n.) See Camelet. |
camlet | noun (n.) A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. |
camonflet | noun (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. |
campanologist | noun (n.) One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer. |
camptight | noun (n.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel. |
candent | adjective (a.) Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. |
candicant | adjective (a.) Growing white. |
candiot | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary. |
candlelight | noun (n.) The light of a candle. |
candytuft | noun (n.) An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia. |
canescent | adjective (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white. |
canoeist | noun (n.) A canoeman. |
canonist | noun (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. |
cant | noun (n.) A corner; angle; niche. |
noun (n.) An outer or external angle. | |
noun (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. | |
noun (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant. | |
noun (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. | |
noun (n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. | |
noun (n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads. | |
noun (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking. | |
noun (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. | |
noun (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. | |
noun (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars. | |
noun (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. | |
adjective (a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. | |
verb (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. | |
verb (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. | |
verb (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. | |
verb (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. | |
verb (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. | |
verb (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. |
cantlet | noun (n.) A piece; a fragment; a corner. |
cantonment | noun (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters. |
canzonet | noun (n.) A short song, in one or more parts. |
capellet | noun (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down. |
capillament | noun (n.) A filament. |
noun (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. |
capitalist | noun (n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. |
caponet | noun (n.) A young capon. |
capot | noun (n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. |
verb (v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet. |
capulet | noun (n.) Same as Capellet. |
caput | noun (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum. |
noun (n.) The top or superior part of a thing. | |
noun (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. |
carat | noun (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed. |
noun (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold. |
carburet | noun (n.) A carbide. See Carbide |
verb (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize. |
carburetant | noun (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases. |
carcanet | noun (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. |
caret | noun (n.) A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret. |
noun (n.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill. |
caricaturist | noun (n.) One who caricatures. |
carkanet | noun (n.) A carcanet. |
carlist | noun (n.) A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain. |
carlot | noun (n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. |
carmot | noun (n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed. |
carnalist | noun (n.) A sensualist. |
carpet | noun (n.) A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. |
noun (n.) A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. |
carpologist | noun (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology. |
carrot | noun (n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties. |
noun (n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color. |
cart | noun (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. |
noun (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. | |
noun (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc. | |
noun (n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart. | |
verb (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment. | |
verb (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter. |
cartoonist | noun (n.) One skilled in drawing cartoons. |
cartwright | noun (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. |
carvelbuilt | adjective (a.) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. |
carvist | noun (n.) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. |
casement | noun (n.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. |
casket | noun (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. |
noun (n.) A kind of burial case. | |
noun (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed | |
noun (n.) The body. | |
noun (n.) The tomb. | |
noun (n.) A book of selections. | |
noun (n.) A gasket. See Gasket. | |
verb (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket. |
cast | noun (n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw. |
noun (n.) The thing thrown. | |
noun (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. | |
noun (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. | |
noun (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm. | |
noun (n.) The act of casting in a mold. | |
noun (n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern. | |
noun (n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting. | |
noun (n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. | |
noun (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. | |
noun (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. | |
noun (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. | |
noun (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. | |
noun (n.) A stoke, touch, or trick. | |
noun (n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. | |
noun (n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. | |
noun (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp. | |
noun (n.) Contrivance; plot, design. | |
verb (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. | |
verb (v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes. | |
verb (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest. | |
verb (v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. | |
verb (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. | |
verb (v. t.) To contrive; to plan. | |
verb (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages. | |
verb (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. | |
verb (v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets. | |
verb (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype. | |
verb (v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. | |
verb (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. | |
verb (v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons. | |
verb (v. i.) To calculate; to compute. | |
verb (v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold. | |
verb (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape. | |
verb (v. i.) To vomit. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Cast | |
() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth. |
castanet | noun (n.) See Castanets. |
castlet | noun (n.) A small castle. |
casualist | noun (n.) One who believes in casualism. |
casuist | noun (n.) One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. |
verb (v. i.) To play the casuist. |
cat | noun (n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat. |
noun (n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade. | |
noun (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship. | |
noun (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed. | |
noun (n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc. | |
noun (n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor. |
catabaptist | noun (n.) One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. |
cataclysmist | noun (n.) One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms. |
catamount | noun (n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx. |
cataphract | noun (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. |
noun (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract. | |
noun (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes. |
catapult | noun (n.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc. |
noun (n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc. |
cataract | noun (n.) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall. |
noun (n.) An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight. | |
noun (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot. |
catastrophist | noun (n.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism. |
catboat | noun (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix. |
catchment | noun (n.) A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir. |
catechist | noun (n.) One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters. |
catechumenist | noun (n.) A catechumen. |