| 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. |
| leave | noun (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. |
| | noun (n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go. |
| | verb (v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. |
| | verb (v. t.) To raise; to levy. |
| | verb (v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house. |
| | verb (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed. |
| | verb (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. |
| | verb (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish. |
| | verb (v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. |
| | verb (v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators. |
| | verb (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece. |
| | verb (v. i.) To depart; to set out. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off. |
| weave | noun (n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. |
| | verb (v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become woven or interwoven. |
| brave | noun (n.) A brave person; one who is daring. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, an Indian warrior. |
| | noun (n.) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. |
| | noun (n.) A challenge; a defiance; bravado. |
| | superlative (superl.) Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act. |
| | superlative (superl.) Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous. |
| | superlative (superl.) Making a fine show or display. |
| | verb (v. t.) To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare. |
| | verb (v. t.) To adorn; to make fine or showy. |
| cave | noun (n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den. |
| | noun (n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. |
| | noun (n.) To make hollow; to scoop out. |
| | noun (n.) A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To dwell in a cave. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. |
| grave | noun (n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
| | noun (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. |
| | noun (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. |
| | noun (n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. |
| | noun (n.) To entomb; to bury. |
| | noun (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. |
| | superlative (superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. |
| | superlative (superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. |
| | superlative (superl.) Slow and solemn in movement. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. |
| | verb (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. |
| octave | noun (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. |
| | noun (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones. |
| | noun (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself. |
| | noun (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. |
| | noun (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe. |
| | adjective (a.) Consisting of eight; eight. |
| pave | noun (n.) The pavement. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. |
| | verb (v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. |
| rave | noun (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously. |
| | verb (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense. |
| | () imp. of Rive. |
| save | noun (n.) The herb sage, or salvia. |
| | adjective (a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. |
| | adjective (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. |
| | adjective (a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. |
| | adjective (a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. |
| | adjective (a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. |
| | adjective (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. |
| | adjective (a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. |
| | verb (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. |
| | (conj.) Except; unless. |
| stave | noun (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. |
| | noun (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. |
| | noun (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. |
| | noun (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat. |
| | noun (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off. |
| | noun (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. |
| | noun (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. |
| | noun (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles. |
| | noun (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. |
| | verb (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments. |
| 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. |
| reaction | noun (n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action. |
| | noun (n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame. |
| | noun (n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock. |
| | noun (n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction. |
| | noun (n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction. |
| | noun (n.) A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves. |
| | () A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility. |
| read | noun (n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed. |
| | adjective (a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. |
| | verb (v. t.) To advise; to counsel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite. |
| | verb (v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give advice or counsel. |
| | verb (v. i.) To tell; to declare. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. |
| | verb (v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar. |
| | verb (v. i.) To learn by reading. |
| | verb (v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts. |
| | verb (v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly. |
| | verb (v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. |
| | verb (v.) Reading. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Read |
| | () imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i. |
| reading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read |
| | noun (n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read. |
| | noun (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading. |
| | noun (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital. |
| | noun (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version. |
| | noun (n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering. |
| | noun (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading. |
| | adjective (a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. |
| ready | noun (n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready. |
| | superlative (superl.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. |
| | superlative (superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. |
| | superlative (superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. |
| | superlative (superl.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy. |
| | superlative (superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive. |
| | superlative (superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. |
| | adverb (adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dispose in order. |
| real | noun (n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system. |
| | noun (n.) A realist. |
| | adjective (a.) Royal; regal; kingly. |
| | adjective (a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life. |
| | adjective (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to things, not to persons. |
| | adjective (a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. |
| ream | noun (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. |
| | noun (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cream; to mantle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer. |
| reeve | noun (n.) The female of the ruff. |
| | noun (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like. |
| relative | noun (n.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. |
| | noun (n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. |
| | noun (n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that". |
| | adjective (a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. |
| | adjective (a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute. |
| | adjective (a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. |
| | adjective (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other. |
| remove | noun (n.) The act of removing; a removal. |
| | noun (n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being removed. |
| | noun (n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else. |
| | noun (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. |
| | noun (n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another. |
| representative | noun (n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude. |
| | noun (n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority. |
| | noun (n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another. |
| | noun (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. |
| | noun (n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group. |
| | noun (n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region. |
| | adjective (a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. |
| | adjective (a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. |
| | adjective (a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government. |
| | adjective (a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. |
| | adjective (a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties. |
| | adjective (a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. |
| 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. |
| resolve | noun (n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution. |
| | noun (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution. |
| | verb (v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. |
| | verb (v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. |
| | verb (v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event. |
| | verb (v. i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money). |
| | verb (v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole. |
| | verb (v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of. |
| | verb (v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord. |
| | verb (v. i.) To relax; to lay at ease. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution. |
| | verb (v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life. |
