account | noun (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. |
| noun (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank. |
| noun (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts. |
| noun (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. |
| noun (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. |
| noun (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. |
| noun (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. |
| verb (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count. |
| verb (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. |
| verb (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. |
| verb (v. t.) To recount; to relate. |
| verb (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received. |
| verb (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities. |
| verb (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. |
amount | noun (n.) To go up; to ascend. |
| noun (n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto. |
| noun (n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little. |
| noun (n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue. |
| noun (n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. |
| verb (v. t.) To signify; to amount to. |
blunt | noun (n.) A fencer's foil. |
| noun (n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle. |
| noun (n.) Money. |
| adjective (a.) Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. |
| adjective (a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. |
| adjective (a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. |
| adjective (a.) Hard to impress or penetrate. |
| verb (v. t.) To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. |
| verb (v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings. |
bunt | noun (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand. |
| noun (n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. |
| noun (n.) A push or shove; a butt; |
| noun (n.) the act of bunting the ball. |
| verb (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it. |
count | noun (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl. |
| verb (v. t.) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon. |
| verb (v. t.) To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging. |
| verb (v. t.) To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider. |
| verb (v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing. |
| verb (v. i.) To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon. |
| verb (v. i.) To take account or note; -- with |
| verb (v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. |
| verb (v. t.) The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting. |
| verb (v. t.) An object of interest or account; value; estimation. |
| verb (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. |
grunt | noun (n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog. |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. |
haunt | noun (n.) A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. |
| noun (n.) The habit of resorting to a place. |
| noun (n.) Practice; skill. |
| verb (v. t.) To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. |
| verb (v. t.) To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. |
| verb (v. t.) To practice; to devote one's self to. |
| verb (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate. |
| verb (v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting. |
hunt | noun (n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. |
| noun (n.) The game secured in the hunt. |
| noun (n.) A pack of hounds. |
| noun (n.) An association of huntsmen. |
| noun (n.) A district of country hunted over. |
| verb (v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. |
| verb (v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. |
| verb (v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. |
| verb (v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. |
| verb (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. |
| verb (v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. |
| verb (v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. |
| verb (v. i.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel. |
| verb (v. i.) To shift up and down in order regularly. |
| verb (v. t.) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. |
mount | noun (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up. |
| noun (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding. |
| noun (n.) To attain in value; to amount. |
| noun (n.) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus. |
| verb (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry. |
| verb (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. |
| verb (v.) A bank; a fund. |
| verb (v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb. |
| verb (v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high. |
| verb (v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted |
| verb (v.) A horse. |
| verb (v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting. |
punt | noun (n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc. |
| noun (n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters. |
| noun (n.) The act of punting the ball. |
| verb (v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble. |
| verb (v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion. |
| verb (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands. |
| verb (v. i.) To boat or hunt in a punt. |
| verb (v. i.) To punt a football. |
stunt | noun (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber. |
| noun (n.) A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat. |
| verb (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. |
wale | noun (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. |
| noun (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. |
| noun (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. |
| noun (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc. |
| noun (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot. |
| verb (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes. |
| verb (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. |
walk | noun (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. |
| noun (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. |
| noun (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. |
| noun (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. |
| noun (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. |
| noun (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior. |
| noun (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. |
| noun (n.) In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. |
| noun (n.) A place for keeping and training puppies. |
| noun (n.) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. |
| verb (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. |
| verb (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. |
| verb (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. |
| verb (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. |
| verb (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. |
| verb (v. i.) To move off; to depart. |
| verb (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. |
| verb (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. |
| verb (v. t.) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. |
| verb (v. t.) To move in a manner likened to walking. |
wall | noun (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. |
| noun (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
| noun (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. |
| noun (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. |
| noun (n.) The side of a level or drift. |
| noun (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
| verb (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
| verb (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. |
| verb (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
wallop | noun (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. |
| noun (n.) A thick piece of fat. |
| noun (n.) A blow. |
| verb (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. |
| verb (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. |
| verb (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. |
| verb (v. i.) To be slatternly. |
| verb (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. |
| verb (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw or tumble over. |
wallow | noun (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. |
| noun (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. |
| noun (n.) To wither; to fade. |
| noun (n.) A kind of rolling walk. |
| noun (n.) Act of wallowing. |
| noun (n.) A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow. |
| verb (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. |
warrant | noun (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority. |
| noun (n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing. |
| noun (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice. |
| noun (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below. |
| noun (n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security. |
| noun (n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher. |
| noun (n.) Right; legality; allowance. |
| noun (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action. |
| noun (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it. |
| noun (n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to. |
| noun (n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure. |
| noun (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss. |
| noun (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2. |
| noun (n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it. |