attach | noun (n.) An attachment. |
| verb (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. |
| verb (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship. |
| verb (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery. |
| verb (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. |
| verb (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of. |
| verb (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. |
| verb (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached. |
| verb (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. |
approach | noun (n.) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. |
| verb (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. |
| verb (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. |
| verb (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. |
| verb (v. t.) To take approaches to. |
| verb (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. |
| verb (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near. |
| verb (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances. |
| verb (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. |
| verb (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. |
| verb (v. i.) See Approaching. |
breach | noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. |
| noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. |
| noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. |
| noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. |
| noun (n.) A bruise; a wound. |
| noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture. |
| noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. |
| verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
broach | noun (n.) A spit. |
| noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. |
| noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. |
| noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. |
| noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting. |
| noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower. |
| noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. |
| noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. |
| noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. |
| noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. |
| noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit. |
| noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. |
| noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores. |
| noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. |
| noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out. |
| noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. |
| noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. |
coach | noun (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. |
| noun (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. |
| noun (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. |
| noun (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car. |
| verb (v. t.) To convey in a coach. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. |
| verb (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with |
poach | noun (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. |
| noun (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. |
| verb (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. |
| verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. |
| verb (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything. |
| verb (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling |
| verb (v. t.) To begin and not complete. |
| verb (v. i.) To become soft or muddy. |
reach | noun (n.) An effort to vomit. |
| noun (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. |
| noun (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. |
| noun (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. |
| noun (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. |
| noun (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage. |
| noun (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. |
| verb (v. i.) To retch. |
| verb (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. |
| verb (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. |
| verb (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. |
| verb (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend. |
| verb (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive. |
| verb (v. i.) To stretch out the hand. |
| verb (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts. |
| verb (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. |
| verb (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. |
bearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
| noun (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. |
| noun (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. |
| noun (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. |
| noun (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. |
| noun (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. |
| noun (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall. |
| noun (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
| noun (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. |
| noun (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. |
| noun (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
| noun (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
| noun (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. |
| noun (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
| noun (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
| noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. |
| noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. |
| noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
| noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
| noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
| noun (n.) A portable punching machine. |
| noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Bere |
| verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. |
| verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. |
| verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor |
| verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. |
| verb (v. t.) To gain or win. |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. |
| verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. |
| verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. |
| verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
| verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. |
| verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. |
| verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. |
| verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
| verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. |
| verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. |
| verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. |
| verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? |
| verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
| verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. |
| verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
beard | noun (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| noun (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. |
| noun (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds |
| noun (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. |
| noun (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. |
| noun (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. |
| noun (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. |
| noun (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. |
| noun (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. |
| noun (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. |
| noun (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a trick. |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. |
| verb (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
bead | noun (n.) A prayer. |
| noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. |
| noun (n.) Any small globular body |
| noun (n.) A bubble in spirits. |
| noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. |
| noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). |
| noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. |
| noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. |
| verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
beak | noun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. |
| noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. |
| noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. |
| noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. |
| noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. |
| noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. |
| noun (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. |
| noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. |
| noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. |
| noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. |
| noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.). |
| noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman. |
beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
| noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. |
| noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
| noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
| noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. |
| noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. |
| noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
| noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
| noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. |
| noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. |
| noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. |
| verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. |
| verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
beast | noun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. |
| noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. |
| noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. |
| noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo. |
| noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. |
beat | noun (n.) A stroke; a blow. |
| noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. |
| noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. |
| noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. |
| noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8. |
| noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. |
| noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing |
| noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop. |
| noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. |
| noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. |
| adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. |
| verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash. |
| verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. |
| verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. |
| verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path. |
| verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. |
| verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. |
| verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. |
| verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. |
| verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing. |
| verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. |
| verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. |
| verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. |
| verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. |
| verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. |
| verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort. |
| verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. |
| (imp.) of Beat |
| (p. p.) of Beat |
bench | noun (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. |
| noun (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench. |
| noun (n.) The seat where judges sit in court. |
| noun (n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench. |
| noun (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms. |
| noun (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with benches. |
| verb (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor. |
| verb (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice. |