| brick | noun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. |
| | noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. |
| | noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). |
| | noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. |
| prick | noun (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. |
| | noun (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. |
| | noun (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. |
| | noun (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. |
| | noun (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. |
| | noun (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. |
| | noun (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. |
| | noun (n.) To render acid or pungent. |
| | noun (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. |
| | noun (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. |
| | noun (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. |
| | noun (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. |
| | noun (n.) To nick. |
| | verb (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. |
| | verb (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. |
| | verb (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. |
| | verb (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. |
| | verb (v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. |
| | verb (v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. |
| | verb (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. |
| | verb (v.) The footprint of a hare. |
| | verb (v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. |
| | verb (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. |
| | verb (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark. |
| trick | adjective (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. |
| | adjective (a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks. |
| | adjective (a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys. |
| | adjective (a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning. |
| | adjective (a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair. |
| | adjective (a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. |
| | adjective (a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours. |
| | adjective (a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry. |
| click | noun (n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward. |
| | noun (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel. |
| | noun (n.) The latch of a door. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move with the sound of a click. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. |
| | verb (v. t.) To snatch. |
| kick | noun (n.) A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot. |
| | noun (n.) The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
| | noun (n.) A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick. |
| | noun (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. |
| | verb (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn. |
| | verb (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc. |
| lick | noun (n.) A slap; a quick stroke. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. |
| | verb (v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking. |
| | verb (v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied. |
| | verb (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. |
| nick | noun (n.) An evil spirit of the waters. |
| | noun (n.) A notch cut into something |
| | noun (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. |
| | noun (n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution. |
| | noun (n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china. |
| | noun (n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. |
| | verb (v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher). |
| | verb (v. t.) To nickname; to style. |
| quick | noun (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. |
| | noun (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively. |
| | noun (n.) Quitch grass. |
| | noun (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. |
| | noun (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively. |
| | noun (n.) Quitch grass. |
| | superlative (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate. |
| | superlative (superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. |
| | superlative (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick. |
| | superlative (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. |
| | superlative (superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. |
| | superlative (superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. |
| | superlative (superl.) Pregnant; with child. |
| | superlative (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate. |
| | superlative (superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. |
| | superlative (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick. |
| | superlative (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. |
| | superlative (superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. |
| | superlative (superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. |
| | superlative (superl.) Pregnant; with child. |
| | adverb (adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive. |
| | adverb (adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive. |
| pick | noun (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. |
| | noun (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. |
| | noun (n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. |
| | noun (n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock. |
| | noun (n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. |
| | noun (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. |
| | noun (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. |
| | verb (v.) To throw; to pitch. |
| | verb (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. |
| | verb (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. |
| | verb (v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire. |
| | verb (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. |
| | verb (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. |
| | verb (v.) To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. |
| | verb (v.) To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. |
| | verb (v.) To trim. |
| | verb (v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. |
| | verb (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care. |
| | verb (v. i.) To steal; to pilfer. |
| 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. |
| warranty | noun (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant. |
| | noun (n.) An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor. |
| | noun (n.) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties. |
| | noun (n.) Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant. |
| | noun (n.) Security; warrant; guaranty. |
| | verb (v. t.) To warrant; to guarantee. |
| warren | noun (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. |
| | noun (n.) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. |
| | noun (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river. |
| war | noun (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. |
| | noun (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason. |
| | noun (n.) Instruments of war. |
| | noun (n.) Forces; army. |
| | noun (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war. |
| | noun (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. |
| | adjective (a.) Ware; aware. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. |
| | verb (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight. |
| | verb (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage. |
| warble | noun (n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling. |
| | noun (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles. |
| | noun (n.) See Wormil. |
| | noun (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel. |
| warbler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical. |
| ward | noun (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody. |
| | noun (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded. |
| | noun (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a county. |
| | noun (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a forest. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward. |
| | noun (n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it. |
| | noun (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch. |
| | noun (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. |
| | noun (n.) To defend; to protect. |
| | noun (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. |
| | noun (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. |
| | adjective (a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard. |
| | verb (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon. |
| warm | noun (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. |
| | adjective (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. |
| | adjective (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. |
| | superlative (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. |
| | superlative (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing. |
| | superlative (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt. |
| | superlative (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. |
| | superlative (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. |
| | superlative (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. |
| | superlative (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. |
| | superlative (superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds. |
