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Brucine
  • (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica

    Brucite
  • (n.) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous

    Bruin
  • (a.) A bear

    Bruise
  • (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body
  • (v. i.) To fight with the fists
  • (v. t.) To break

    Bruit
  • (n.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
  • (v. t.) To report

    Brumaire
  • (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox

    Brume
  • (n.) Mist

    Brummagem
  • (a.) Counterfeit

    Brunette
  • (a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.

    Brunt
  • (v. t.) The force of a blow

    Brush
  • (n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus
  • (v. i.) To move nimbly in haste

    Brusque
  • (a.) Rough and prompt in manner

    Brutal
  • (a.) Like a brute

    Brute
  • (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental
  • (n.) A brutal person
  • (v. t.) To report

    Brutish
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes

    Bryology
  • (n.) That part of botany which relates to mosses.

    Bryony
  • (n.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B

    Bryozoan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.
  • (n.) One of the Bryozoa.

    Bub
  • (n.) A young brother
  • (v. t.) To throw out in bubbles

    Bubble
  • (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid

    Bubbly
  • (a.) Abounding in bubbles

    Bubo
  • (n.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

    Buccal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

    Buccaneer
  • (n.) A robber upon the sea
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer

    Buccinator
  • (n.) A muscle of the cheek

    Bucephalus
  • (n.) Hence, any riding horse.

    Buchu
  • (n.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands

    Buck
  • (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed
  • (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

    Bucolic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd
  • (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds

    Bud
  • (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached
  • (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  • (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear

    Buddha
  • (n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp

    Buddhism
  • (n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b

    Buddhist
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
  • (n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.

    Budding
  • (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free

    Buddle
  • (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions
  • (v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.

    Budge
  • (a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
  • (n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on
  • (v.) Brisk
  • (v. i.) To move off

    Buff
  • (a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
  • (n.) A buffet
  • (v. t.) To polish with a buff.

    Bug
  • (n.) A bugbear

    Bugbane
  • (n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga

    Bugbear
  • (a.) Causing needless fright.
  • (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.

    Buggy
  • (a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
  • (n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

    Bugle
  • (a.) Jet black.
  • (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed

    Bugloss
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet

    Buhrstone
  • (n.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.

    Build
  • (n.) Form or mode of construction
  • (v. i.) To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
  • (v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind

    Built
  • (a.) Formed
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Build
  • (n.) Shape

    Bulb
  • (n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots
  • (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb

    Bulge
  • (n.) A swelling, protuberant part
  • (v. i.) To bilge, as a ship

    Bulk
  • (n.) Magnitude of material substance
  • (v.) A projecting part of a building.
  • (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent

    Bull
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a bull
  • (n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
  • (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of

    Bulrush
  • (n.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

    Bulwark
  • (n.) A rampart
  • (v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall

    Bum
  • (n.) A humming noise.
  • (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.

    Bumble
  • (n.) The bittern.
  • (v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee

    Bumboat
  • (n.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore

    Bummalo
  • (n.) A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish

    Bummer
  • (n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support

    Bump
  • (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow
  • (v. i.) To come in violent contact with something
  • (v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid

    Bunch
  • (n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together
  • (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance
  • (v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.

    Bund
  • (n.) An embankment against inundation.

    Bung
  • (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung

    Bunion
  • (n.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe

    Bunk
  • (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk

    Bunny
  • (n.) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

    Bunt
  • (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust
  • (v. i.) To swell out
  • (v. t. & i.) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it

    Buoy
  • (n.) A float
  • (v. i.) To float
  • (v. t.) To fix buoys to

    Burbot
  • (n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin

    Burden
  • (n.) A birth.
  • (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative)

    Burdock
  • (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals

    Bureau
  • (n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.

    Burette
  • (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged

    Burg
  • (n.) A borough.

    Burial
  • (n.) A grave

    Burin
  • (n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle

    Burke
  • (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly

    Burl
  • (n.) A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
  • (v. t.) To dress or finish up (cloth)

    Burmese
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.

    Burn
  • (n.) A disease in vegetables.
  • (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
  • (v. t.) To apply a cautery to

    Burr
  • (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping
  • (v. i.) To speak with burr

    Bursa
  • (n.) Any sac or saclike cavity

    Burse
  • (n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies

    Bursitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of a bursa.

    Burst
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Burst
  • (n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort
  • (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way
  • (v. t.) To break.

    Burton
  • (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part

    Bury
  • (n.) A borough
  • (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean

    Bus
  • (n.) An omnibus.

    Busby
  • (n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder

    Bush
  • (n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller
  • (v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining

    Busily
  • (adv.) In a busy manner.

    Business
  • (n.) Affair

    Busk
  • (n.) Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten
  • (v. t. & i.) To go

    Buss
  • (n.) A kiss
  • (v. t.) To kiss

    Bust
  • (n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast

    Busy
  • (a.) Careful
  • (v. t.) To make or keep busy

    But
  • (adv. & conj.) Except
  • (n.) A limit
  • (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house
  • (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering

    Butane
  • (n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

    Butcher
  • (n.) A slaughterer
  • (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market

    Butler
  • (n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc

    Butt
  • (n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
  • (v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity

    Butyl
  • (n.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.

    Butyraceous
  • (a.) Having the qualities of butter

    Butyrate
  • (n.) A salt of butyric acid.

    Butyric
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.

    Butyrin
  • (n.) A butyrate of glycerin

    Buxom
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner

    Buy
  • (v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
  • (v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively

    Buyer
  • (n.) One who buys

    Buzz
  • (n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees
  • (v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings
  • (v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.

    By
  • (a.) Out of the common path
  • (adv.) Aside
  • (pref.) Against.

    Bye
  • (n.) A dwelling.

    Bygone
  • (a.) Past
  • (n.) Something gone by or past

    Bypath
  • (n.) A private path

    Byroad
  • (n.) A private or obscure road.

    Byronic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.

    Byssus
  • (n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk

    Bystander
  • (n.) One who stands near

    Byway
  • (n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way

    Byword
  • (n.) A common saying

    Byzantine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
  • (n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium.

    Cab
  • (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

    Cabal
  • (n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue
  • (v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue

    Cabaret
  • (n.) A tavern

    Caber
  • (n.) A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength.

    Cabezon
  • (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

    Cabin
  • (n.) A cottage or small house
  • (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin
  • (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

    Cable
  • (n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a cable.
  • (v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable

    Cabochon
  • (n.) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted

    Caboodle
  • (n.) The whole collection

    Caboose
  • (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.

    Cabotage
  • (n.) Navigation along the coast

    Cabrilla
  • (n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc

    Cabriole
  • (n.) A curvet

    Cacao
  • (n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared

    Cachalot
  • (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti

    Cache
  • (n.) A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry

    Cachou
  • (n.) A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

    Cachucha
  • (n.) An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.

    Cackle
  • (n.) Idle talk
  • (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose

    Cacodemon
  • (n.) An evil spirit

    Cacodyl
  • (n.) Alkarsin

    Cacography
  • (n.) Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.

    Cacophony
  • (n.) A combination of discordant sounds.

    Cactus
  • (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus.

    Cacuminal
  • (a.) Pertaining to the top of the palate

    Cad
  • (n.) A lowbred, presuming person

    Cadaver
  • (n.) A dead human body

    Caddie
  • (n.) A cadet.

    Caddis
  • (n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.

    Caddy
  • (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

    Cadence
  • (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment
  • (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.

    Cadent
  • (a.) Falling.

    Cadenza
  • (n.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence

    Cadet
  • (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission

    Cadge
  • (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
  • (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden.

    Cadi
  • (n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village

    Cadmium
  • (n.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable

    Cadre
  • (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed

    Caduceus
  • (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top

    Caducity
  • (n.) Tendency to fall

    Caecilian
  • (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha.

    Caecum
  • (n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.

    Caesar
  • (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler

    Caesium
  • (n.) A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water

    Caesura
  • (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse

    Cafe
  • (n.) A coffeehouse

    Caffeine
  • (n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana

    Caftan
  • (n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands
  • (v. t.) To clothe with a caftan.

    Cage
  • (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals
  • (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage

    Caird
  • (n.) A traveling tinker

    Cairn
  • (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc

    Caisson
  • (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach

    Caitiff
  • (a.) Base
  • (n.) A captive

    Cajole
  • (v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words

    Cajun
  • (n.) In Louisiana, a person reputed to be Acadian French descent.

    Cake
  • (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high
  • (v. i.) To cackle as a goose.

    Cal
  • (n.) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten.

    Calabash
  • (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd

    Calaboose
  • (n.) A prison

    Caladium
  • (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food

    Calamanco
  • (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.

    Calamine
  • (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

    Calamint
  • (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme

    Calamite
  • (n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within

    Calamitous
  • (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery

    Calamity
  • (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery

    Calamus
  • (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic

    Calando
  • (a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

    Calaverite
  • (n.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster

    Calcar
  • (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain

    Calceolaria
  • (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America

    Calcic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.

    Calciferous
  • (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.

    Calcific
  • (a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles

    Calcify
  • (v. i.) To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth
  • (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

    Calcimine
  • (n.) A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water
  • (v. t.) To wash or cover with calcimine

    Calcine
  • (v. i.) To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat

    Calcite
  • (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite

    Calcium
  • (n.) An elementary substance

    Calculable
  • (a.) That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.

    Calculate
  • (v. i.) To adjust for purpose

    Calculating
  • (a.) Given to contrivance or forethought
  • (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.

    Calculation
  • (n.) An expectation based on circumstances.

    Calculator
  • (n.) One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects

    Calculous
  • (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi

    Calculus
  • (n.) A method of computation

    Caldron
  • (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron.

    Caledonia
  • (n.) The ancient Latin name of Scotland

    Calendar
  • (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days
  • (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar

    Calender
  • (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance

    Calendrical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a calendar.

    Calends
  • (n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.

    Calendula
  • (n.) A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name

    Calenture
  • (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics
  • (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

    Calf
  • (n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man

    Calibrate
  • (v. i.) To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube

    Calibration
  • (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees

    Calico
  • (a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico
  • (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

    Calipash
  • (n.) A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle

    Calipee
  • (n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy

    Calipers
  • (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc

    Caliph
  • (n.) Successor or vicar

    Calisthenics
  • (n.) The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness

    Calix
  • (n.) A cup.

    Calk
  • (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
  • (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice
  • (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held

    Call
  • (n.) A divine vocation or summons.
  • (v. i.) To make a brief visit
  • (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present

    Calm
  • (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance
  • (super.) Not stormy

    Calomel
  • (n.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative

    Caloric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.
  • (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed

    Calorie
  • (n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard

    Calorific
  • (a.) Possessing the quality of producing heat

    Calorimeter
  • (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc

    Calotype
  • (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver

    Calumet
  • (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers

    Calumniate
  • (v. i.) To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another
  • (v. t.) To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable

    Calumny
  • (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another

    Calvary
  • (n.) A cross, set upon three steps

    Calve
  • (v. i.) To bring forth a calf.

    Calvinism
  • (n.) The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches

    Calx
  • (n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

    Calypso
  • (n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow

    Calyx
  • (n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae

    Cam
  • (a.) Crooked.
  • (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.

    Camaraderie
  • (n.) Comradeship and loyalty.

    Camarilla
  • (n.) A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king

    Camber
  • (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel
  • (v. i.) To curve upward.
  • (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve

    Cambist
  • (n.) A banker

    Cambium
  • (n.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase

    Cambrian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
  • (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales.

    Cambric
  • (n.) A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors

    Came
  • (imp.) of Come
  • (n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass

    Camisado
  • (n.) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.

    Camisole
  • (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

    Camlet
  • (n.) A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton

    Camorra
  • (n.) A secret organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc

    Camp
  • (n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
  • (v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp
  • (v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

    Can
  • (n.) A drinking cup
  • (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans
  • (v. t. & i.) To be able

    Canaanite
  • (n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

    Canadian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.

    Canaille
  • (n.) Shorts or inferior flour.

    Canal
  • (n.) A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width

    Canard
  • (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story

    Canary
  • (a.) Of a pale yellowish color
  • (n.) A canary bird.
  • (v. i.) To perform the canary dance

    Cancan
  • (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

    Cancel
  • (v. i.) An inclosure

    Cancer
  • (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc

    Cancroid
  • (a.) Like a cancer

    Candelabrum
  • (n.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet

    Candescent
  • (a.) Glowing

    Candid
  • (a.) Free from undue bias

    Candiot
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia

    Candle
  • (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light

    Candor
  • (n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness

    Candy
  • (n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
  • (v. i.) To be formed into candy
  • (v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape

    Cane
  • (n.) A lance or dart made of cane.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a cane.

    Cangue
  • (n.) A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment

    Canicular
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.

    Canine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves
  • (n.) A canine tooth.

    Canister
  • (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun

    Canker
  • (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer
  • (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker
  • (v. t.) To affect as a canker

    Canna
  • (n.) A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C

    Cannelure
  • (n.) A groove in any cylinder

    Cannery
  • (n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.

    Cannibal
  • (a.) Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.
  • (n.) A human being that eats human flesh

    Cannikin
  • (n.) A small can or drinking vessel.

    Cannon
  • (n.) A great gun
  • (v. i.) To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound

    Cannula
  • (n.) A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids

    Canoe
  • (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
  • (v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

    Canon
  • (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

    Canopus
  • (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

    Canopy
  • (n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc
  • (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

    Cant
  • (a.) Of the nature of cant
  • (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale
  • (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness
  • (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

    Canvas
  • (a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth
  • (n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work

    Canyon
  • (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on.

    Canzone
  • (n.) An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.


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