| attach | noun (n.) An attachment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship. |
| | verb (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery. |
| | verb (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. |
| | verb (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. |
| approach | noun (n.) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take approaches to. |
| | verb (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. |
| | verb (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near. |
| | verb (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances. |
| | verb (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. |
| | verb (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. |
| | verb (v. i.) See Approaching. |
| breach | noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. |
| | noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. |
| | noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. |
| | noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. |
| | noun (n.) A bruise; a wound. |
| | noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture. |
| | noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. |
| | verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
| broach | noun (n.) A spit. |
| | noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. |
| | noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. |
| | noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. |
| | noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting. |
| | noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower. |
| | noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. |
| | noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. |
| | noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. |
| | noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. |
| | noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit. |
| | noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. |
| | noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores. |
| | noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. |
| | noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out. |
| | noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. |
| | noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. |
| coach | noun (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. |
| | noun (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. |
| | noun (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. |
| | noun (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey in a coach. |
| | verb (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with |
| impeach | noun (n.) Hindrance; impeachment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent. |
| | verb (v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. |
| | verb (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. |
| leach | noun (n.) See 3d Leech. |
| | noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. |
| | noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. |
| | noun (n.) See Leech, a physician. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. |
| | verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. |
| poach | noun (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. |
| | noun (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. |
| | verb (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. |
| | verb (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling |
| | verb (v. t.) To begin and not complete. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become soft or muddy. |
| reach | noun (n.) An effort to vomit. |
| | noun (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. |
| | noun (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. |
| | noun (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. |
| | noun (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. |
| | noun (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage. |
| | noun (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To retch. |
| | verb (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. |
| | verb (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. |
| | verb (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. |
| | verb (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend. |
| | verb (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive. |
| | verb (v. i.) To stretch out the hand. |
| | verb (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts. |
| | verb (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. |
| stomach | noun (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric. |
| | noun (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. |
| | noun (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. |
| | noun (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. |
| | noun (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be angry. |
| nation | noun (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. |
| | noun (n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. |
| | noun (n.) Family; lineage. |
| | noun (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. |
| | noun (n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity. |
| | noun (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs. |
| nationality | noun (n.) The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism. |
| | noun (n.) The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character. |
| | noun (n.) A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. |
| | noun (n.) Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity. |
| | noun (n.) The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc. |
| native | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France. |
| | noun (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. |
| | adjective (a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries. |
| | adjective (a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust. |
| | adjective (a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). |
| | adjective (a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver. |
| | adjective (a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride. |
| natural | noun (n.) A native; an aboriginal. |
| | noun (n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc. |
| | noun (n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. |
| | noun (n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note. |
| | adjective (a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. |
| | adjective (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death. |
| | adjective (a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology. |
| | adjective (a.) Conformed to truth or reality |
| | adjective (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. |
| | adjective (a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity. |
| | adjective (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. |
| | adjective (a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major. |
| | adjective (a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. |
| naturalism | noun (n.) A state of nature; conformity to nature. |
| | noun (n.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. |
| | noun (n.) The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. |
| | noun (n.) Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. |
| nature | noun (n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. |
| | noun (n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. |
| | noun (n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect. |
| | noun (n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience. |
| | noun (n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality. |
| | noun (n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life. |
| | noun (n.) Natural affection or reverence. |
| | noun (n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character. |
| | verb (v. t.) To endow with natural qualities. |
