| face | noun (n.) The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces. |
| | noun (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line. |
| | noun (n.) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face. |
| | noun (n.) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The style or cut of a type or font of type. |
| | noun (n.) Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance. |
| | noun (n.) Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. |
| | noun (n.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. |
| | noun (n.) Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. |
| | noun (n.) Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of. |
| | noun (n.) Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. |
| | noun (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done. |
| | noun (n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. |
| | verb (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To Confront impudently; to bully. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble. |
| | verb (v. t.) To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left. |
| | verb (v. i.) To present a face or front. |
| surface | noun (n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, outward or external appearance. |
| | noun (n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold. |
| | () A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aeroplane or flying machine. |
| brace | noun (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. |
| | noun (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell. |
| | noun (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves. |
| | noun (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. |
| | noun (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. |
| | noun (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. |
| | noun (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. |
| | noun (n.) Harness; warlike preparation. |
| | noun (n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace. |
| | noun (n.) The mouth of a shaft. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards. |
| | verb (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up. |
| embrace | noun (n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. |
| | noun (n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love. |
| | noun (n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome. |
| | noun (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. |
| | noun (n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. |
| | noun (n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to. |
| | noun (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court. |
| | noun (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To join in an embrace. |
| grace | noun (n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. |
| | noun (n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. |
| | noun (n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. |
| | noun (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. |
| | noun (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. |
| | noun (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. |
| | noun (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. |
| | noun (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. |
| | noun (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. |
| | noun (n.) Thanks. |
| | noun (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. |
| | noun (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. |
| | noun (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. |
| | verb (v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. |
| | verb (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace. |
| | verb (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. |
| lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. |
| | noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. |
| | noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. |
| | verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. |
| | verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). |
| | verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. |
| | verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
| pace | noun (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. |
| | noun (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces. |
| | noun (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. |
| | noun (n.) A slow gait; a footpace. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. |
| | noun (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure. |
| | noun (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall. |
| | noun (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. |
| | verb (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pass away; to die. |
| | verb (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. |
| | verb (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. |
| | verb (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in. |
| place | noun (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. |
| | noun (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. |
| | noun (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. |
| | noun (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. |
| | noun (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). |
| | noun (n.) A definite position or passage of a document. |
| | noun (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. |
| | noun (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. |
| | noun (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. |
| | noun (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. |
| | noun (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. |
| | noun (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. |
| | noun (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. |
| | noun (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. |
| | noun (n.) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. |
| | verb (v. t.) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place-kick ( a goal). |
| bond | noun (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint. |
| | noun (n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship. |
| | noun (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation. |
| | noun (n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond. |
| | noun (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond. |
| | noun (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other. |
| | noun (n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. |
| | noun (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit. |
| | noun (n.) League; association; confederacy. |
| | adjective (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity. |
| bone | noun (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. |
| | noun (n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body. |
| | noun (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. |
| | noun (n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. |
| | noun (n.) Dice. |
| | noun (n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: The framework of anything. |
| | verb (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fertilize with bone. |
| | verb (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. |
| bonnet | noun (n.) A headdress for men and boys; a cap. |
| | noun (n.) A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. |
| | noun (n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel. |
| | noun (n.) Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use |
| | noun (n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. |
| | noun (n.) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks. |
| | noun (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft. |
| | noun (n.) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers. |
| | noun (n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. |
| | noun (n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal. |
| | noun (n.) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. |
| | noun (n.) The metal cover or shield over the motor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. |
| bounce | noun (n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. |
| | noun (n.) An explosion, or the noise of one. |
| | noun (n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. |
| | noun (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus). |
| | verb (v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. |
| | verb (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. |
| | verb (v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss. |
| | verb (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bully; to scold. |
| | adverb (adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly. |
