quirk | noun (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. |
| noun (n.) A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. |
| noun (n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. |
| noun (n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music. |
| noun (n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink. |
| noun (n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. |
| noun (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. |
| noun (n.) A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. |
| noun (n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. |
| noun (n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music. |
| noun (n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink. |
| noun (n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. |
direct | noun (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation. |
| adjective (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. |
| adjective (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. |
| adjective (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. |
| adjective (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. |
| adjective (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance. |
| verb (v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road. |
| verb (v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army. |
| verb (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. |
| verb (v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter. |
| verb (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. |
direction | noun (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank. |
| noun (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. |
| noun (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter. |
| noun (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction. |
| noun (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors. |
| noun (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. |
director | noun (n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. |
| noun (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. |
| noun (n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. |
| noun (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath. |
directory | noun (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book. |
| noun (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory. |
| noun (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic. |
| noun (n.) Direction; guide. |
| adjective (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. |
dirt | noun (n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. |
| noun (n.) Meanness; sordidness. |
| noun (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. |
| verb (v. t.) To make foul of filthy; to dirty. |
damask | noun (n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. |
| noun (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color. |
| noun (n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings. |
| noun (n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel. |
| noun (n.) A deep pink or rose color. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus. |
| adjective (a.) Having the color of the damask rose. |
| verb (v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen. |
dark | noun (n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light. |
| noun (n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. |
| noun (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. |
| adjective (a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. |
| adjective (a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. |
| adjective (a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. |
| adjective (a.) Deprived of sight; blind. |
| verb (v. t.) To darken to obscure. |
disk | noun (n.) A discus; a quoit. |
| noun (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. |
| noun (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. |
| noun (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc. |
| noun (n.) The whole surface of a leaf. |
| noun (n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. |
| noun (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. |
| noun (n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones. |
| noun (n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. |
| noun (n.) In owls, the space around the eyes. |
dock | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination. |
| noun (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. |
| noun (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse. |
| noun (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide. |
| noun (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock. |
| noun (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands. |
| verb (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc. |
drink | noun (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. |
| noun (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. |
| verb (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. |
| verb (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. |
| verb (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. |
| verb (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. |
| verb (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. |
| verb (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco. |
duck | noun (n.) A pet; a darling. |
| noun (n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. |
| noun (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. |
| verb (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. |
| verb (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy. |
| verb (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. |
| verb (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip. |
| verb (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. |
| verb (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. |
| verb (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
deck | noun (n.) A main aeroplane surface, esp. of a biplane or multiplane. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover; to overspread. |
| verb (v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. |
| verb (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. |
| verb (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat. |
| verb (v.) The roof of a passenger car. |
| verb (v.) A pack or set of playing cards. |
| verb (v.) A heap or store. |