nerve | noun (n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. |
| noun (n.) A sinew or a tendon. |
| noun (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. |
| noun (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution. |
| noun (n.) Audacity; assurance. |
| noun (n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf. |
| noun (n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects. |
| verb (v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm. |
preserve | noun (n.) That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural. |
| noun (n.) A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food. |
| verb (v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. |
| verb (v. t.) To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes. |
| verb (v. t.) To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence. |
| verb (v. i.) To make preserves. |
| verb (v. i.) To protect game for purposes of sport. |
reserve | noun (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. |
| noun (n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. |
| noun (n.) That which is excepted; exception. |
| noun (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. |
| noun (n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy. |
| noun (n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. |
| noun (n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. |
| noun (n.) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it; |
| noun (n.) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand for this purpose, called the real reserve. In Great Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by the notes in hand in its own banking department; and any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England is a part of its reserve. In the United States the reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which is required by law to be not less than 15 per cent (U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks that are in reserve cities (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5192). |
| noun (n.) The amount of funds or assets necessary for a company to have at any given time to enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then in force as they would mature according to the particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on net premiums. It is theoretically the difference between the present value of the total insurance and the present value of the future premiums on the insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which another company could, theoretically, afford to take over the insurance, is sometimes called the reinsurance fund or the self-insurance fund. For the first year upon any policy the net premium is called the initial reserve, and the balance left at the end of the year including interest is the terminal reserve. For subsequent years the initial reserve is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment of losses is sometimes called the insurance reserve, and the terminal reserve is then called the investment reserve. |
| noun (n.) In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified. |
| noun (n.) A resist. |
| noun (n.) A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit. |
| noun (n.) See Army organization, above. |
| verb (v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. |
| verb (v. t.) To make an exception of; to except. |
carve | noun (n.) A carucate. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. |
| verb (v. t.) To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. |
| verb (v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. |
| verb (v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures. |
| verb (v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests. |
curve | adjective (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. |
| adjective (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal. |
| adjective (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. |
| adjective (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it. |
| verb (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right. |
herald | noun (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. |
| noun (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms. |
| noun (n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame. |
| noun (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger. |
| noun (n.) Any messenger. |
| verb (v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. |
herd | noun (n.) A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle. |
| noun (n.) A crowd of low people; a rabble. |
| noun (n.) One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like. |
| adjective (a.) Haired. |
| verb (v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills. |
| verb (v. i.) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company. |
| verb (v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. |
| verb (v. t.) To form or put into a herd. |
heave | noun (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. |
| noun (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like. |
| noun (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log. |
| verb (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. |
| verb (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. |
| verb (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. |
| verb (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. |
| verb (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit. |