a. Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. “The adjoining fane.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By adorning; decoratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 bringing into alignment
Syn. -- positioning [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ See Amorwe. The -s is a genitival ending. See -wards. ] In the morning; every morning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And have such pleasant walks into the woods
A-mornings. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Origin uncertain: cf. F. auvent awing, or Pers. āwan, āwang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered from wind and weather, E. haven. ] 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an awning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.
balloonry (archaic) [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Stock Exchange) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds (esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order that bans something. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Arch.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Enterprise. “To hinder our beginnings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Senses 1 and 2 fr. 1st Bone, sense 3 fr. 3d Bone. ] 1. The clearing of bones from fish or meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manuring of land with bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Burningly; ardently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a young hound upon a burning scent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. --
Burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. --
Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. --
Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An obscure road; a way turning from the main road. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Syn. -- candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. something made of interlaced slender branches of especially willow.
Syn. -- wicker, wickerwork. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the practice of taking holidays in a caravan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth and degree of hardening (carbonization) depending on the time during which the iron is exposed to the heat. See Cementation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who churns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity of butter made at one operation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of making clean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shining brightly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. acting like a clown or buffoon.
Syn. -- buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a comic incident or series of incidents.
Syn. -- drollery, comedy, funniness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. uttering complaints. Opposite of uncomplaining. [ prenominal ] [ Narrower terms: faultfinding, grumbling(prenominal): fretful, querulous, whiney, whining(prenominal), whiny; protesting(prenominal), protestant ]
Syn. -- complaintive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prep. Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Important. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So great and so concerning truth. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. “Our everlasting concernments.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Importance; moment; consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concern; participation; interposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. n. The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the raised structure rising above the deck of a submarine. [ PJC ]

adv. Contemptuously. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. singing in a soft low tone; as, her crooning soon put the child to sleep. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Agric.) A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st Con, Can. ] 1. Knowing; skillful; dexterous. “A cunning workman.” Ex. xxxviii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. [ 1913 Webster ]

Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. [ Colloq. U.S. ] Barlett.

Syn. -- Cunning, Artful, Sly, Wily, Crafty. -- These epithets agree in expressing an aptitude for attaining some end by peculiar and secret means. Cunning is usually low; as, a cunning trick. Artful is more ingenious and inventive; as, an artful device. Sly implies a turn for what is double or concealed; as, sly humor; a sly evasion. Crafty denotes a talent for dexterously deceiving; as, a crafty manager. Wily describes a talent for the use of stratagems; as, a wily politician. A cunning man often shows his dexterity in simply concealing. An artful man goes further, and exerts his ingenuity in misleading. A crafty man mingles cunning with art, and so shapes his actions as to lull suspicions. The young may be cunning, but the experienced only can be crafty. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. Wiliness is a species of cunning or craft applicable only to cases of attack and defense.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning, a. ] 1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

A carpenter's desert
Stands more in cunning than in power. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a cunning manner; with cunning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being cunning; craft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.
Syn. -- padding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Tendency to bring damnation. “The damningness of them [ sins ].” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of making something slightly wet.
Syn. -- moistening. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Twilight; gloaming. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the first light of day; dawn.
Syn. -- dawn, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).
Syn. -- stultification, impairment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]