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 |
impeach | noun (n.) Hindrance; impeachment. |
| verb (v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent. |
| verb (v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. |
| verb (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. |
leach | noun (n.) See 3d Leech. |
| noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. |
| noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. |
| noun (n.) See Leech, a physician. |
| verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. |
| verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. |
| verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. |
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. |
stomach | noun (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric. |
| noun (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. |
| noun (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. |
| noun (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. |
| noun (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. |
| verb (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. |
| verb (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. |
| verb (v. i.) To be angry. |
deacon | noun (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church. |
| noun (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company. |
| verb (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off. |
| verb (v. t.) With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc. |
dead | noun (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter. |
| noun (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively. |
| adjective (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep. |
| adjective (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight. |
| adjective (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor. |
| adjective (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade. |
| adjective (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. |
| adjective (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty. |
| adjective (a.) Bringing death; deadly. |
| adjective (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works. |
| adjective (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect. |
| adjective (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson. |
| adjective (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead. |
| adjective (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle. |
| adjective (a.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use. |
| adjective (a.) Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games. |
| adverb (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. |
| verb (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. |
| verb (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force. |
deaden | adjective (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. |
| adjective (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. |
| adjective (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. |
| adjective (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. |
| verb (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. |
deal | noun (n.) A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. |
| noun (n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. |
| noun (n.) Distribution; apportionment. |
| noun (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. |
| noun (n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. |
| noun (n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. |
| noun (n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack. |
| verb (v. i.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. |
| verb (v. i.) To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. |
| verb (v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. |
| verb (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. |
| verb (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. |
dean | noun (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop. |
| noun (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. |
| noun (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities. |
| noun (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. |
| noun (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy. |
dear | noun (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart. |
| superlative (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. |
| superlative (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. |
| superlative (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. |
| superlative (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. |
| superlative (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests. |
| superlative (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies. |
| adverb (adv.) Dearly; at a high price. |
| verb (v. t.) To endear. |