| cherub | noun (n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. |
| | noun (n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple. |
| | noun (n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs. |
| | noun (n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children. |
| club | noun (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. |
| | noun (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure. |
| | noun (n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. |
| | noun (n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat with a club. |
| | verb (v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions. |
| | verb (v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out. |
| daub | noun (n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear. |
| | noun (n.) A picture coarsely executed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. |
| | verb (v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. |
| | verb (v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily. |
| | verb (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer. |
| dub | noun (n.) A blow. |
| | noun (n.) A pool or puddle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight. |
| | verb (v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; |
| | verb (v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. |
| | verb (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. |
| grub | noun (n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith. |
| | noun (n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf. |
| | noun (n.) Victuals; food. |
| | verb (v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge. |
| | verb (v. t.) To supply with food. |
| hub | noun (n.) The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box. |
| | noun (n.) The hilt of a weapon. |
| | noun (n.) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby. |
| | noun (n.) A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast. |
| | noun (n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3. |
| | noun (n.) A block for scotching a wheel. |
| rub | noun (n.) The act of rubbing; friction. |
| | noun (n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch. |
| | noun (n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. |
| | noun (n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub. |
| | noun (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault. |
| | noun (n.) A chance. |
| | noun (n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone. |
| | verb (v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body. |
| | verb (v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world. |
| scrub | noun (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. |
| | noun (n.) Something small and mean. |
| | noun (n.) A worn-out brush. |
| | noun (n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc. |
| | noun (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above. |
| | noun (n.) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality. |
| | adjective (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living. |
| snub | noun (n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song. |
| | noun (n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sob with convulsions. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop. |
| | verb (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. |
| | verb (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. |
| stub | noun (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. |
| | noun (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead. |
| | noun (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar. |
| | noun (n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded. |
| | noun (n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib. |
| | noun (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. |
| | verb (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. |
| tub | noun (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes. |
| | noun (n.) The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. |
| | noun (n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. |
| | noun (n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. |
| | noun (n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin. |
| | noun (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant. |
| | (i.) To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. |
| web | noun (n.) A weaver. |
| | noun (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. |
| | noun (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven. |
| | noun (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication. |
| | noun (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood. |
| | noun (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. |
| | noun (n.) The blade of a sword. |
| | noun (n.) The blade of a saw. |
| | noun (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter. |
| | noun (n.) The bit of a key. |
| | noun (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. |
| | noun (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail. |
| | noun (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot. |
| | noun (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye. |
| | noun (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians. |
| | noun (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle. |
