prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Denmark. Population (2000) = 1, 339, 395. [ PJC ]

n. [ From Copenhagen, Denmark. ] 1. A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence; something which causes one to suddenly understand what was not previously known. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A drink of liquor, especially the first one in the morning. [ U. S. Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing one suddenly to learn or understand what was not previously known; as, an eye-opening look into the private machinations of the governor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. open; akin to D. open, OS. opan, G. offan, Icel. opinn, Sw. öppen, Dan. aaben, and perh. to E. up. Cf. Up, and Ope. ] 1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through the gate,
Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

Also, figuratively, used of the ways of communication of the mind, as by the senses; ready to hear, see, etc.; as, to keep one's eyes and ears open. [ 1913 Webster ] His ears are open unto their cry. Ps. xxxiv. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

The service that I truly did his life,
Hath left me open to all injuries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: (a) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

With aspect open, shall erect his head. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Moor is of a free and open nature. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The French are always open, familiar, and talkative. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt; open source code. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

His thefts are too open. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That I may find him, and with secret gaze
Or open admiration him behold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Phon.) (a) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the än fär is open as compared with the ā in sāy. (b) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Mus.) (a) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length. (b) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

The open air, the air out of doors. --
Open chain. (Chem.) See Closed chain, under Chain. --
Open circuit (Elec.), a conducting circuit which is incomplete, or interrupted at some point; -- opposed to an uninterrupted, or closed circuit. --
Open communion, communion in the Lord's supper not restricted to persons who have been baptized by immersion. Cf. Close communion, under Close, a. --
Open diapason (Mus.), a certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end. --
Open flank (Fort.), the part of the flank covered by the orillon. --
Open-front furnace (Metal.), a blast furnace having a forehearth. --
Open harmony (Mus.), harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. --
Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse. --
Open hearth (Metal.), the shallow hearth of a reverberatory furnace. --
Open-hearth furnace, a reverberatory furnace; esp., a kind of reverberatory furnace in which the fuel is gas, used in manufacturing steel. --
Open-hearth process (Steel Manuf.), a process by which melted cast iron is converted into steel by the addition of wrought iron, or iron ore and manganese, and by exposure to heat in an open-hearth furnace; -- also called the Siemens-Martin process, from the inventors. --
Open-hearth steel, steel made by an open-hearth process; -- also called Siemens-Martin steel. --
Open newel. (Arch.) See Hollow newel, under Hollow. --
Open pipe (Mus.), a pipe open at the top. It has a pitch about an octave higher than a closed pipe of the same length. --
Open-timber roof (Arch.), a roof of which the constructional parts, together with the under side of the covering, or its lining, are treated ornamentally, and left to form the ceiling of an apartment below, as in a church, a public hall, and the like. --
Open vowel or
Open consonant. See Open, a., 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Open is used in many compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, open-breasted, open-minded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Unclosed; uncovered; unprotected; exposed; plain; apparent; obvious; evident; public; unreserved; frank; sincere; undissembling; artless. See Candid, and Ingenuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water. “To sail into the open.” Jowett (Thucyd.). [ 1913 Webster ]

Then we got into the open. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

In open,
In th open, in full view; without concealment; openly. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Opened p. pr. & vb. n. Opening. ] [ AS. openian. See Open, a. ] 1. To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the windows of my heart
I open to the day. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unto thee have I opened my cause. Jer. xx. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

While he opened to us the Scriptures. Luke xxiv. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The English did adventure far for to open the North parts of America. Abp. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open an investigation; to open a case in court, or a meeting. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

To open one's mouth,
to speak. --
To open up, to lay open; to discover; to disclose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our “bold peasantry, their country's pride.” Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. Ps. cvi. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Sporting) To bark on scent or view of the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as opencut.
Syn. -- opencut, strip(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Chemistry) not cyclic; having no rings of atoms within the molecular structure; having an open chain structure. Opposite of cyclic. [ Narrower terms: aliphatic ]
Syn. -- acyclic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not buttoned at the neck; -- of a shirt; as, dressed casually in shorts and an open-collared shirt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. worked from the exposed surface; -- of mines and mining; as, opencut mining.
Syn. -- opencast, strip(prenominal), open-pit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (a) Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

She of the open soul and open door,
With room about her hearth for all mankind. Lowell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(b) In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon equal terms, esp. with reference to a nation whose policy is wholly or partially fixed by nations foreign to itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door system, open-door policy, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The steps taken by Britain to maintain the open door have so far proved to be perfectly futile. A. R. Colquhoun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. 1. having the covering skin pulled back; -- used of mouth or eyes; as, his mouth slightly opened. Opposite of closed. [ Narrower terms: agape(predicate), gaping, yawning ; agaze, staring ; round-eyed, wide ]
Syn. -- open. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having the seal broken so as to reveal the contents; as, the letter was already opened.
Syn. -- open. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. allowing for a spontaneous response; as, an open-ended question. Contrasted to multiple-choice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. without fixed limits or restrictions, as to tpoic or time; as, an open-ended discussion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. allowing for future changes or revisions; as, open-ended agreements. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, opens. “True opener of my eyes.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: A bottle opener or a can opener; as, you need an opener to get the cap off. [ PJC ]

a. With eyes widely open; alert to possible danger; watchful; vigilant. Shak.
Syn. -- argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, unsleeping, vigilant, wary, watchful. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Generous; liberal; munificent. -- O"pen-hand`ed*ness, n. J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]

a. Bareheaded. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Candid; frank; generous. Dryden. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Open. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

The opening of your glory was like that of light. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. [ 1913 Webster ]

We saw him at the opening of his tent. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: An opportunity; as, an opening for business. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: A vacant place; a job which does not have a current occupant; as, they are now interviewing candidates for the two openings in the department. [ PJC ]

5. A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; a clearing; as, oak openings. [ U.S. ] Cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. openlice. ] 1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. [ 1913 Webster ]

How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. [ 1913 Webster ]

My love . . . shall show itself more openly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Ready to entertain new ideas. Contrasted with closed-minded. [ Narrower terms: broad-minded (vs. narrow-minded), broadminded, broad ]
Syn. -- open. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being open. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Internat. Law) A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Law) A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A quarry; an open cut. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably a corruption fr. G. vielliebchen, LG. vielliebken, or D. veelliebken, a philopena, literally, much loved; but influenced by Gr. fi`los a friend, and L. poena penalty, from an idea that the gift was a penalty of friendship or love. ] A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [ Written also fillipeen and phillippine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. propendere, propensum; pro forward, forth + pendere to hang. See Pendent. ] To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Propensity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attentive deliberation. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. propendens, p. pr. ] Inclining forward or toward. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Propyl + ethylene. ] (Chem.) Same as Propylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. propensus, p. p. See Propend. ] Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. propensio: cf. F. propension. See Propend, Propense. ] The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your full consent
Gave wings to my propension. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Propensities The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. “A propensity to utter blasphemy.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Propene + -yl. ] (Chem.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin. Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To open again. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a kind of multiped, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Zool.) A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sea fish. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Shape. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } p. p. of Step. Stepped; gone; advanced. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the value of twopence. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L. vagina a sheath + penna a feather, pl. pennae a wing. ] (Zool.) Having elytra; sheath-winged. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]