| bell | noun (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. |
| | noun (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. |
| | noun (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. |
| | noun (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube. |
| | verb (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter by bellowing. |
| | verb (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. |
| fell | noun (n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. |
| | noun (n.) A barren or rocky hill. |
| | noun (n.) A wild field; a moor. |
| | noun (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting. |
| | noun (n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses. |
| | noun (n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. |
| | adjective (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. |
| | adjective (a.) Eager; earnest; intent. |
| | adjective (a.) Gall; anger; melancholy. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams. |
| | (imp.) of Fall |
| | () imp. of Fall. |
| sell | noun (n.) Self. |
| | noun (n.) A sill. |
| | noun (n.) A cell; a house. |
| | noun (n.) A saddle for a horse. |
| | noun (n.) A throne or lofty seat. |
| | noun (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. |
| | verb (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To practice selling commodities. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price. |
| shell | noun (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. |
| | noun (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell. |
| | noun (n.) A pod. |
| | noun (n.) The hard covering of an egg. |
| | noun (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering. |
| | noun (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb. |
| | noun (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms. |
| | noun (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house. |
| | noun (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. |
| | noun (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works. |
| | noun (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve. |
| | noun (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell. |
| | noun (n.) Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell; |
| | noun (n.) A case or cartridge containing a charge of explosive material, which bursts after having been thrown high into the air. It is often elevated through the agency of a larger firework in which it is contained. |
| | noun (n.) A torpedo. |
| | noun (n.) A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape. |
| | noun (n.) A gouge bit or shell bit. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters. |
| | verb (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk. |
| | verb (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping. |
| smell | noun (n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes. |
| | noun (n.) To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out. |
| | noun (n.) To give heed to. |
| | verb (v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. |
| | verb (v. i.) To exercise the sense of smell. |
| | verb (v. i.) To exercise sagacity. |
| | verb (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense. |
| | verb (v. t.) The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint. |
| spell | noun (n.) A spelk, or splinter. |
| | noun (n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead. |
| | noun (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks. |
| | noun (n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells. |
| | noun (n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell. |
| | noun (n.) A story; a tale. |
| | noun (n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm. |
| | verb (v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. |
| | verb (v. t.) To constitute; to measure. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing. |
| | verb (v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study. |
| swell | noun (n.) The act of swelling. |
| | noun (n.) Gradual increase. |
| | noun (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance. |
| | noun (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise. |
| | noun (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound. |
| | noun (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. |
| | noun (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells. |
| | noun (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. |
| | noun (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign. |
| | noun (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. |
| | verb (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. |
| | verb (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style. |
| | verb (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly. |
| | verb (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount. |
| | verb (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. |
| | verb (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population. |
| | verb (v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten. |
| | verb (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness. |
| | verb (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note. |
| tell | noun (n.) That which is told; tale; account. |
| | noun (n.) A hill or mound. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. |
| | verb (v. t.) To order; to request; to command. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give an account; to make report. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. |
| dribble | noun (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. |
| | noun (n.) An act of dribbling a ball. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves. |
| | verb (v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To let fall in drops. |
| | verb (v. t.) In various games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control. |
| | verb (v. i.) In football and similar games, to dribble the ball. |
| | verb (v. i.) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion. |
| drift | noun (n.) A driving; a violent movement. |
| | noun (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. |
| | noun (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. |
| | noun (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim. |
| | noun (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along |
| | noun (n.) Anything driven at random. |
| | noun (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. |
| | noun (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. |
| | noun (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. |
| | noun (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice. |
| | noun (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river. |
| | noun (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach. |
| | noun (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. |
| | noun (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles. |
| | noun (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel. |
| | noun (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time. |
| | noun (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. |
| | noun (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. |
| | noun (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. |
| | noun (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle. |
| | noun (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven. |
| | noun (n.) One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific. |
| | noun (n.) The horizontal component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which sustains the machine in the air. |
| | adjective (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. |
| | verb (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. |
| | verb (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts. |
| | verb (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand. |
| | verb (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift. |
| drill | noun (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. |
| | noun (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. |
| | noun (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. |
| | noun (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. |
| | noun (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill. |
| | noun (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
| | noun (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
| | noun (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
| | noun (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
| | noun (n.) Same as Drilling. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. |
| | verb (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. |
| | verb (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
| | verb (v. i.) To trickle. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sow in drills. |
| 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. |
| drive | noun (n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. |
| | noun (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. |
| | noun (n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. |
| | noun (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. |
| | noun (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. |
| | noun (n.) In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven. |
| | noun (n.) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. |
| | noun (n.) An implement used for driving; |
| | noun (n.) A mallet. |
| | noun (n.) A tamping iron. |
| | noun (n.) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. |
| | noun (n.) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. |
| | verb (v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. |
| | verb (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. |
| | verb (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. |
| | verb (v. i.) To distrain for rent. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee. |
| | verb (v. t.) Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw. |
| | (p. p.) Driven. |
| driver | noun (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. |
| | noun (n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive. |
| | noun (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. |
| | noun (n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: |
| | noun (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive. |
| | noun (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. |
| | noun (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. |
| | noun (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. |
