n. One who absconds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bewondered ] 1. To fill with wonder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wonder at; to admire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Norwegian bonde. ] A freeholder on a small scale. [ Norway ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cond. ] One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who desponds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Equi- + ponderance: cf. F. équipondérance. ] Equality of weight; equipoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. équipondérant. ] Being of the same weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Equi- + L. ponderare to weigh. See Ponderate. ] To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. “More than equiponderated the declension in that direction.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + L. pondus, ponderis, weight. ] Having equal weight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. impondérabilité. ] The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + ponderable: cf. F. impondérable. ] Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Imponderable. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pon"der*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

a. Too heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pondered p. pr. & vb. n. Pondering. ] [ L. ponderare, fr. pondus, ponderis, a weight, fr. pendere to weigh: cf. F. pondérer. See Pendant, and cf. Pound a weight. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To weigh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Ponder, Consider, Muse. To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we muse on the events of childhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pondérabilité. ] The quality or state of being ponderable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ponderabilis: cf. F. pondérable. ] Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Cf. F. pondéral. ] Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ponderans, p. pr. of ponderare to weigh: cf. OF. ponderant of weight. ] Weight; gravity. [ R. ] Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [ R. ] M'Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have weight or influence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ponderatus, p. p. of ponderare. See Ponder. ] To consider; to ponder. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ponderatio: cf. F. pondération. ] The act of weighing. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who ponders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Ponderosities [ OF. ponderosité. ] The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ponderosus, from pondus, -eris, a weight: cf. F. pondéreux. See Ponder. ] 1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sepulcher . . .
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Important; momentous; forcible. “Your more ponderous and settled project.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ponderous spar (Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a ponderous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. To preponderate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. prépondérance. ] 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praeponderans, -antis: cf. F. prépondérant. See Preponderate. ] Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Preponderated p. pr. & vb. n. Preponderating. ] [ L. praeponderatus, p. p. of praeponderare; prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. See Ponder. ] 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. [ 1913 Webster ]

An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To overpower by stronger or moral power. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated. [ 1913 Webster ]

That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a preponderating manner; preponderantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praeponderatio. ] The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who seconds{ 3 } or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. sonderklasse special class. ] (Yachting) A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, and extreme draft must be not more than 32 feet; the weight, not less than 4, 035 pounds (without crew); the sail area, not more than 550 square yards; and the cost of construction (for American boats) not more than $2400. The crew must be amateurs and citizens of the country in which the yacht was built. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To wiegh over and above. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + wonder. ] To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 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 ]

n. [ OE. wonder, wunder, AS. wundor; akin to D. wonder, OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. &unr_; to gaze at. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less than amazement. It differs from admiration, as now used, in not being necessarily accompanied with love, esteem, or approbation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle. “ Babylon, the wonder of all tongues.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am as a wonder unto many. Ps. lxxi. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Wondered p. pr. & vb. n. Wondering. ] [ AS. wundrian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. [ 1913 Webster ]

I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wonder, in my soul,
What you would ask me, that I should deny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wonderful. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

After that he said a wonder thing. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Wonderfully. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]