v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Carved p. pr. & vb. n. Carving. ] [ AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. gra`fein to write, orig. to scratch, and E. -graphy. Cf. Graphic. ] 1. To cut. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

An angel carved in stone. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. C. Wolfe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. “To carve a capon.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

My good blade carved the casques of men. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A million wrinkles carved his skin. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. “[ Macbeth ] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A carucate. [ Obs. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. formed by carving or having a design carved into the surface. [ Narrower terms: sliced ]
Syn. -- carven. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Contr. fr. caravel. ] 1. Same as Caravel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carvi caraway. ] An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. “The carver's chisel.” Dodsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who carves or divides meat at table. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A large knife for carving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cut completely; to cut off. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo`s fruit. Cf. Carpet. ] 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen. viii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Joel iii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Harvest fish (Zool.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. --
Harvest fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. --
Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [ Obs. ] Tusser. --
Harvest mite (Zool.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug. --
Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days. --
Harvest mouse (Zool.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. --
Harvest queen, an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. --
Harvest spider. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting. ] To reap or gather, as any crop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A harvesting ant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Harvesting ant (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and Aphenogaster barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is Pogonomyrmex crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. “Harvestless autumns.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An erect perennial Old World herb (Agrimonia eupatoria) of dry grassy habitats.
Syn. -- Agrimonia eupatoria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Harvestmen 1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Metal.) A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To starve with hunger; to famish. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. The driver of a hackney coach. [ Slang, Eng. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hackney coach. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The litter at the bottom of the jarvy. T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Carvel, and Caravel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Larves [ F. ] A larva. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mervaile, F. merveille, fr. L. mirabilia wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder or marvel at. See Admire, Smile, and cf. Miracle. ] 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wonder. [ R. ] “Use lessens marvel.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Marveled r Marvelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marveling or Marvelling. ] [ OE. merveilen, OF. merveillier. ] To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 1 john iii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To marvel at. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But much now me marveleth. Rich. the Redeless. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Marvelous.
Syn. -- improbable, marvelous, tall(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. n. (Bot.) A common garden plant (Mirabilis jalapa or Mirabilis uniflora) of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon; called also four-o'clock. See four-o'clock.
Syn. -- common four-o'clock, marvel of Peru, Mirabilis jalapa, Mirabilis uniflora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OE. merveillous, OF. merveillos, F. Merveilleux. See Marvel, n. ] [ Written also marvellous. ] 1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible; so improbable as to defy belief. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The marvelous, that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to the probable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable; incredible. -- Marvelous, Wonderful. We speak of a thing as wonderful when it awakens our surprise and admiration; as marvelous when it is so much out of the ordinary course of things as to seem nearly or quite incredible. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. corrupt. fr. OE. or F. marbre marble. ] (Glass Marking) A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop. p. p. of parvenir to attain to, to succeed, to rise to high station, L. pervenire to come to; per through + venire to come. See Par, prep., and Come. ] An upstart; a man newly risen into notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The hedge sparrow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Starved p. pr. & vb. n. Starving. ] [ OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil. ] 1. To die; to perish. [ Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger. ] Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perish or die with cold. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To destroy with cold. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Starve + -ling. ] One who, or that which, pines from lack of food, or nutriment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hungry; lean; pining with want. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Swerve. ] 1. To swerve. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Spenser. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To climb. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
See namable.
See native.
See navigable.
See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
See objectionable.
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n. [ F. vervelle. ] In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses. [ Written also vervel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having varvels, or rings. [ Written also varvelled, and vervelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner. [ 1913 Webster ]