n. the process by which objects or materials acquire desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time under specific conditions. It is used mostly for foods snd beverages, but also for other materials. [ Also spelled ageing. ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the act of arranging a piece of music.
Syn. -- arrangement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Cloth or other material for bags. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of swelling; swelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Huge; great in size. [ Colloq. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. being given reluctantly or with displeasure.
Syn. -- envious, grudging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower.
Syn. -- carillon, carillon playing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Commonly in the pl. ] 1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. “Thyself and thy belongings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Family; relations; household. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie"ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. [ OE. bigging. See Big, Bigg, v. t. ] A building. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. Bodrage. ] An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Boastingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. curving or bulging outward. Opposite of concave. [ Narrower terms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform; broken-backed, hogged; convexo-concave; gibbous, gibbose; planoconvex ] Also See: protrusive.
Syn. -- convex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. curving outward.
Syn. -- bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.
Syn. -- ambitious, demanding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.
Syn. -- insubordinate, resistant, resistive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing. See change{ 9 }, n. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a light informal conversation for social occasions.
Syn. -- chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, causerie. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. emitting a series of clangs, as of metal objects colliding.
Syn. -- clangorous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. --
Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitely near in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of the series; -- opposed to a diverging series. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a cringing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation.
Syn. -- detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial, prejudicious. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.
Syn. -- negative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or the place of digging or excavating.
Syn. -- excavation, dig. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Region; locality. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).
Syn. -- ransacking, rummage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. temporary living quarters.
Syn. -- digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Loosing; setting free; detaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Displeasing; offensive. [ Obs. ] Cov. of Tongue.

-- Dis`o*bli"ging*ly, adv. -- Dis`o*bli"ging*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. expressing a low opinion of; same as derogatory; as, disparaging remarks about the new house.
Syn. -- belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diverging series (Math.), a series whose terms are larger as the series is extended; a series the sum of whose terms does not approach a finite limit when the series is extended indefinitely; -- opposed to a converging series. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a diverging manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging minutes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

See Dredging box. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drudging manner; laboriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the administration of a sedative agent or drug.
Syn. -- sedation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Gradually; gingerly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Engaging and disengaging gear or
Engaging and disengaging machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.
Syn. -- expunction, erasure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. -- Flag"ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

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

Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. --
Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of counterfeiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Gang, n., 2. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Jingal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre, gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr. &unr_;; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers. zenjebīl, fr. Skr. ç&rsdot_;&ndot_;gavëra, prop., hornshaped; &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;ga horn + vëra body. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ginger ale (a) a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated. (a) See ginger beer, below. --
Ginger beer or
Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. --
Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. --
Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above). --
Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. --
Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. “Gingerbread that was full fine.” Chaucer.

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Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --
Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. [ 1913 Webster ]