| bridge | noun (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. |
| | noun (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed. |
| | noun (n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. |
| | noun (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit. |
| | noun (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. |
| | noun (n.) A card game resembling whist. |
| | verb (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river. |
| | verb (v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge. |
| | verb (v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over. |
| dodge | noun (n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice. |
| | verb (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. |
| | verb (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. |
| | verb (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown. |
| | verb (v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. |
| | verb (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. |
| dredge | noun (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea. |
| | noun (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. |
| | noun (n.) A mixture of oats and barley. |
| | verb (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. |
| grudge | noun (n.) Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel. |
| | noun (n.) Slight symptom of disease. |
| | verb (v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant. |
| | verb (v. i.) To feel compunction or grief. |
| hedge | noun (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. |
| | verb (v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden. |
| | verb (v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out. |
| | verb (v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). |
| | verb (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape. |
| | verb (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations. |
| | verb (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on. |
| | verb (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite. |
| judge | adjective (a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. |
| | adjective (a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3. |
| | verb (v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. |
| | verb (v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. |
| | verb (v. i.) A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race. |
| | verb (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. |
| | verb (v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. |
| | verb (v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. |
| | verb (v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward. |
| | verb (v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. |
| ledge | noun (n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. |
| | noun (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. |
| | noun (n.) A layer or stratum. |
| | noun (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams. |
| lodge | noun (n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. |
| | noun (n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. |
| | noun (n.) A den or cave. |
| | noun (n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge. |
| | noun (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. |
| | noun (n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. |
| | noun (n.) A collection of objects lodged together. |
| | noun (n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals. |
| | noun (n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. |
| | noun (n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert. |
| | noun (n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal. |
| | noun (n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. |
| | noun (n.) To lay down; to prostrate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree. |
| pledge | noun (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn. |
| | noun (n.) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage. |
| | noun (n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession. |
| | noun (n.) Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties. |
| | noun (n.) A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges. |
| | noun (n.) A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health. |
| | noun (n.) To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch. |
| | noun (n.) To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor. |
| | noun (n.) To secure performance of, as by a pledge. |
| | noun (n.) To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self. |
| | noun (n.) To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast. |
| ridge | noun (n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest. |
| | noun (n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. |
| | noun (n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault. |
| | noun (n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wrinkle. |
