{ } n. [ F. absinthe. See Absinthium. ] 1. The plant absinthium or common wormwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. Ernest Dowson [ PJC ]

An article on absinthe was prepared by Matthew Baggott ([email protected]) for distribution on the newsgroup alt.drugs. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. ache, AS. æce, ece, fr. acan to ache. See Ache, v. i. ] Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. “Such an ache in my bones.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Often used in composition, as, a headache, an earache, a toothache. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. ache, L. apium parsley. ] A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Ached p. pr. & vb. n. Aching ] [ OE. aken, AS. acan, both strong verbs, AS. acan, imp. ōc, p. p. acen, to ache; perh. orig. to drive, and akin to agent. ] To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. “My old bones ache.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sins that in your conscience ache. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. afficher to affix. ] A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. 1 giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop.
Syn. -- genus Agastache. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn up or back; 'ana` + &unr_; to turn. ] (Rhet. & Gram.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn to the opposite side; 'anti` against + &unr_; to turn. See Strophe. ] 1. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) (a) The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master. (b) The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ (1) L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a turning away, fr. &unr_; to turn away; &unr_; from + &unr_; to turn. (2) F., fr. L. apostrophus apostrophe, the turning away or omitting of a letter, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of “Paradise Lost.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character [ ' ] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The mark [ ' ] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apostrophe is used to mark the plural of figures and letters; as, two 10's and three a's. It is also employed to mark the close of a quotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., p. p. of attacher. See Attach, v. t. ] One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. avalanche, fr. avaler to descend, to let down, from aval down, downward; &unr_; (L. ad) + val, L. vallis, valley. See Valley. ] 1. A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an ache localized in the back. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ G. barutsche, It. baroccio, biroccio, LL. barrotium, fr. L. birotus two-wheeled; bi- = bis twice + rota wheel. ] A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bathed p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing. ] [ OE. baðien, AS. baðian, fr. bæð bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe. ] 1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lave; to wet. “The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain.” T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. “The rosy shadows bathe me. ” Tennyson. “The bright sunshine bathing all the world.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. “They bathe in summer.” Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. “To bathe in fiery floods.” Shak. “Bathe in the dimples of her cheek.” Lloyd. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bask in the sun. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The immersion of the body in water; as, to take one's usual bathe. Edin. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration.
Syn. -- bathyscape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Pain in the bowels; colic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.
Syn. -- gripe, whine, complain, moan, snivel, grumble, squawk. [ PJC + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. to give birth to.
Syn. -- give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ After Thomas Blanchard, American inventor. ] (Mach.) A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ AS. blīðe blithe, kind; akin to Goth. bleiþs kind, Icel. blīðr mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe, OHG. blīdi kind, blithe. ] Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

A daughter fair,
So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pain in the bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ pl. Bonnes bouches [ F. bon, fem. bonne, good + bouche mouth. ] A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. bouche mouth, victuals. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A mouth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as Bush, to line. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Same as Bush, a lining. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; related to Sw. brack a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare to smell. ] A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet. Shak. [ Also spelled bratch when pronounced ] [ 1913 Webster + Century Dict. 1906 ]

A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer. Burton (Anatomy of Melancholy). [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

‖n. [ G., fr. It. viola da braccio viola held on the arm. ] The tenor viola, or viola. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Breathed p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing. ] [ From Breath. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. “I am in health, I breathe.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land! Sir W. Scott [ The Lay of the Last Minstrel ]. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. To take breath; to rest from action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. [ 1913 Webster ]

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. [ 1913 Webster ]

To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. [ 1913 Webster ]

Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He softly breathed thy name. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
A mother's curse, on her revolting son. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To express; to manifest; to give forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others articles breathe the same severe spirit. Milner. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing. “They breathe the flute.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To put out of breath; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged [ in whispering ]. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breathe again, to take breath; to feel a sense of relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of business. --
To breathe one's last, to die; to expire. --
To breathe a vein, to open a vein; to let blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A light sweet pastry (cake, bun or roll) made with flour, butter, yeast, and eggs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A knitted foot cushion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖a. [ F. ] 1. Woven with a figure; as, broché goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stitched; -- said of a book with no cover or only a paper one. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. ] See Broach, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a hiding place, fr. cacher to conceal, to hide. ] 1. A hole in the ground, or other hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is hidden in a cache{ 2 }; a hoard; a stockpile. [ PJC ]

3. (Computers) A form of memory in a computer which has a faster access time than most of main memory, and is usually used to store the most frequently accessed data in main memory during execution of a program. [ PJC ]

v. t. To store in a cache{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n. any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. calèche. ] See Calash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a deposit of sand or clay on the surface containing crystallized salts such as sodium chloride or sodium nitrate; -- used especially of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru. RHUD [ PJC ]

2. a stratum of calcium carbonate in the soil of an arid or semiarid region. [ PJC ]

n. [ OF. carrache, F. carrose from It. carrocio, carrozza, fr. carro, L. carus. See Car. ] A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To mount two-wheeled caroches. Butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., fr. OF. carte paper + -blanc, blanche, white. See 1st Card. ] A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cartouches [ F. cartouche, It. cartuccia, cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and cf. Cartridge. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mil.) (a) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. (b) A cartridge box. (c) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. (d) A gunner's bag for ammunition. (e) A military pass for a soldier on furlough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) (a) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper. (b) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. catastropha, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + &unr_; to turn. ] 1. An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. chiche lean + vache cow. ] A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. chiche miserly. ] Parsimonious; niggardly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F. cléché. ] (Her.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. cliché, from clicher to stereotype. ] 1. A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a trite or obvious remark.
Syn. -- platitude, banality, commonplace, bromide. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop., bell. ] (Aëronautics) An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clothed it>or Clad p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing. ] [ OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. clāðian, cl&aemacr_;ðan. See Cloth. ] 1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

The naked every day he clad,
When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. [ 1913 Webster ]

Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]