forge | noun (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. |
| noun (n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. |
| noun (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. |
| noun (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. |
| noun (n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. |
| noun (n.) To coin. |
| noun (n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. |
| verb (v. t.) To commit forgery. |
| verb (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. |
| verb (v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. |
gorge | noun (n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. |
| noun (n.) A narrow passage or entrance |
| noun (n.) A defile between mountains. |
| noun (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion. |
| noun (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. |
| noun (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. |
| noun (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto. |
| noun (n.) The groove of a pulley. |
| noun (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. |
| noun (n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. |
| noun (n.) A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line. |
| verb (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety. |
charge | noun (n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre. |
| noun (n.) Weight; import; value. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. |
| verb (v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples. |
| verb (v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one. |
| verb (v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. |
| verb (v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of. |
| verb (v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding. |
| verb (v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or. |
| verb (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge. |
| verb (v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. |
| verb (v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. |
| verb (v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. |
| verb (v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. |
| verb (v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog. |
| verb (v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. |
| verb (v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. |
| verb (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. |
| verb (v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. |
| verb (v. t.) Harm. |
| verb (v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. |
| verb (v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy. |
| verb (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. |
| verb (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. |
| verb (v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service. |
| verb (v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book. |
| verb (v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time |
| verb (v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. |
| verb (v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. |
| verb (v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment. |
| verb (v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. |
discharge | noun (n.) The equalization of a difference of electric potential between two points. The character of the discharge is mostly determined by the nature of the medium through which it takes place, the amount of the difference of potential, and the form of the terminal conductors on which the difference exists. The discharge may be alternating, continuous, brush, connective, disruptive, glow, oscillatory, stratified, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. |
| verb (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. |
| verb (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. |
| verb (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. |
| verb (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. |
| verb (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. |
| verb (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. |
| verb (v. t.) To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. |
| verb (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. |
| verb (v. t.) To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. |
| verb (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid. |
| verb (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely. |
| verb (v. t.) The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo. |
| verb (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery. |
| verb (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor. |
| verb (v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty. |
| verb (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer. |
| verb (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner. |
| verb (v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal. |
| verb (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. |
| verb (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe. |
| verb (v. t.) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process; as, to discharge the color from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark ground. |
large | noun (n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. |
| superlative (superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. |
| superlative (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. |
| superlative (superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. |
| superlative (superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. |
| superlative (superl.) Free; unembarrassed. |
| superlative (superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. |
| superlative (superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish. |
| superlative (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. |
| adverb (adv.) Freely; licentiously. |
surcharge | noun (n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. |
| noun (n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to. |
| noun (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given. |
| noun (n.) A charge over the usual or legal rates. |
| noun (n.) Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge. |
| verb (v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. |
| verb (v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone. |
| verb (v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given. |
| verb (v. t.) To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp). |
verge | noun (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean. |
| noun (n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge. |
| noun (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore. |
| noun (n.) A virgate; a yardland. |
| noun (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent. |
| noun (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring. |
| noun (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. |
| noun (n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof. |
| noun (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement. |
| noun (n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border. |
| noun (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre. |
| noun (n.) The penis. |
| noun (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| verb (v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach. |
| verb (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north. |