adj. 1. yielding an acid in aqueous solution [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arming was now universal. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Naut.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The business of keeping a baby farm. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. causing formation of an alkali. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Emitting beams; radiant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Formerly sometimes followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is becoming or appropriate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Appearance; look; garb. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Comeliness. Baret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming; suitable. [ Archaic ] -- Be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seem"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Opening in blossoms; flowering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.
Syn. -- flowering, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full to the brim; overflowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. tending to soothe or calm or tranquilize.
Syn. -- ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, soothing, tranquilizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. freeing from fear and anxiety.
Syn. -- assuasive, pacifying, soothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. [ 1913 Webster ]

How charming is divine philosophy. Milton.

Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning.

-- Charm"ing*ly, adv. -- Charm"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your coming days and years. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready to come; complaisant; fond. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ, called usually the second coming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coming in. (a) Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. “The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof.” Ezek. xliii. 11 (b) Income or revenue. “What are thy comings in?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. adhering to established customs or doctrines, especially in religion, as e.g. Orthodox Judaism. [ Narrower terms: orthodox (vs. unorthodox) ]
Syn. -- conformist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. taking up most of one's attention; ardent; as, politics is his consuming passion.
Syn. -- overwhelming. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. act of reducing or depriving of weapons.
Syn. -- disarmament. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. capable of allaying suspicion or hostility and inspiring confidence; as, a disarming smile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. capable of allaying hostility. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The practice of drinking drams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a radiant glance of the eye; as, he pretended profundity by eye-beamings at people. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of cultivating land. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. “In flaming yellow bright.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Flanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Giving off bubbles and developing a head of foam; as, a foaming glass of beer.
Syn. -- bubbling, frothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Ready or about to appear; making appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Candid; frank; not withholding relevant information; cooperative in providing information. [ PJC ]

3. Having an agreeable and sociable personality; friendly. [ PJC ]

4. Available or ready at the time required; as, payment will be forthcoming on receipt of the goods. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch. & Engin.) A framework, or a sy&unr_; of frames. [ 1913 Webster ]

Framing chisel (Carp.), a heavy chisel with a socket shank for making mortises.

a. (Zool.) 1. Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoology) able to swim about; not attached to a stationary object; -- of aquatic animals. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- unattached. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Producing fumes, or vapors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. --
Fuming liquor of Libavius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. --
Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Gloom. ] 1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [ Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry. ] Hogg. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sullenness; melancholy. [ Obs. ] J. Still. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gloaming. ] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the faint glooming in the sky
First lightened into day. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Preparing a person for a position requiring skilled behavior, especially by providing opposrtunity for practise and guidance in making the right decisions; as, to provide grooming for one's successor as president. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- training, preparation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The activity of getting dressed, washed and generally of neat appearance. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- dressing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. The activity of cleaning oneself or others by removing lice, ticks, dirt, etc. from the fur; -- of animals. [ PJC ]

n. poor acting by a ham actor; see ham.
Syn. -- overacting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. causing gladness and pleasure; -- used mostly of the actions of people, and sometimes of animals; as, Is there a sight more heart-warming than a family reunion?. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A return home. [ wns=2 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr,
And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social event, usually held annually at colleges and universities, to welcome visiting alumni; a type of school reunion for graduates. [ wns=1 ] [ PJC ]

p. a. Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homing pigeon, any pigeon trained to return home from a distance. Also called carrier pigeon. Most are bred from the domestic pigeon Columba livia. Homing pigeons are used for sending back messages or for flying races. By carrying the birds away and releasing them at gradually increasing distances from home, they may be trained to return with more or less certainty and promptness from distances up to four or five hundred miles. The birds typically do not stop on their way home, and may average as much as 60 miles per hour on their return trip. If the distance is increased much beyond 400 miles, the birds are unable to cover it without stopping for a prolonged rest, and their return becomes doubtful. The record for returnig from a distance is close to 1, 200 miles. Homing pigeons are not bred for fancy points or special colors, but for strength, speed, endurance, and intelligence or homing instinct. Although used since ancient times, homing pigeons have been largely displaced for practical purposes by radio and electronic communications, but they are still used in some special situations at the end of the 20th century. They were used in military operations as recently as in World War II. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. --
Humming-bird moth (Zool.), a hawk moth. See Hawk moth, under Hawk, the bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A beginning. [ Obs. ] “Their springings and imprimings.” Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]