| cool | noun (n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening. |
| | superlative (superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress. |
| | superlative (superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner. |
| | superlative (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. |
| | superlative (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. |
| fool | noun (n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. |
| | noun (n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. |
| | noun (n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. |
| | noun (n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. |
| | noun (n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. |
| | verb (v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. |
| | verb (v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish. |
| | verb (v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. |
| pool | noun (n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. |
| | noun (n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. |
| | noun (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes. |
| | noun (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table. |
| | noun (n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners. |
| | noun (n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. |
| | noun (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool. |
| | noun (n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. |
| | noun (n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. |
| | verb (v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. |
| school | noun (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. |
| | noun (n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. |
| | noun (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. |
| | noun (n.) A session of an institution of instruction. |
| | noun (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. |
| | noun (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. |
| | noun (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. |
| | noun (n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. |
| | noun (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. |
| | verb (v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. |
| | () A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupre, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton. |
| stool | noun (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. |
| | noun (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses. |
| | noun (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels. |
| | noun (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. |
| | noun (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. |
| | noun (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. |
| | noun (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool. |
| | noun (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. |
| | verb (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. |
| tool | noun (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service. |
| | noun (n.) A weapon. |
| | noun (n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive, as a coach. |
| | verb (v. t.) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. |
| rase | noun (n.) A scratching out, or erasure. |
| | noun (n.) A slight wound; a scratch. |
| | noun (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase. |
| | verb (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. |
| rash | noun (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. |
| | noun (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. |
| | superlative (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty. |
| | superlative (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. |
| | superlative (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander. |
| | superlative (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures. |
| | superlative (superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently. |
| | verb (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. |
| | verb (v. t.) To prepare with haste. |
| raskolnik | noun (n.) One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. |
| | noun (n.) The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The Raskolniki embrace many sects, whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions, habits, and customs. The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books. The dissenters, who have been continually persecuted, are believed to number about 20,000,000, although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2,000,000. They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances, as follows: I. "Most obnoxious." the Judaizers; the Molokane, who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths; the Dukhobortsy, or Dukhobors, who are communistic, marry without ceremony, and believe that Christ was human, but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men; the Khlysty, who countenance anthropolatory, are ascetics, practice continual self-flagellation, and reject marriage; the Skoptsy, who practice castration; and a section of the Bezpopovtsy, or priestless sect, which disbelieve in prayers for the Czar and in marriage. II. "Obnoxious:" the Bezpopovtsy, who pray for the Czar and recognize marriage. III. "Least obnoxious:" the Popovtsy, who dissent from the orthodox church in minor points only. |
