adv. In a swoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Baboonish behavior. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swelled out like a balloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Daniel Boone, a noted American frontiersman, 1734-1820.
Syn. -- Daniel Boone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Buffooneries [ F. bouffonnerie. ] The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a “What makes you blush?” Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a singer of popular ballads.
Syn. -- balladeer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A dragoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished or adorned with galloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An harpooner. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. harponneur. ] One who throws the harpoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The writer of a lampoon. “Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. someone deranged and possibly dangerous.
Syn. -- crazy, loony, weirdo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. “Sharpening in mooned horns.” “Mooned Ashtaroth.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [ R. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conduct of one who moons. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little moon. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Materials for pantaloons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poltronnerie; cf. It. poltroneria. ] Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See the Note below. Cf. Shun. ] (Naut.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The first schooner ever constructed is said to have been built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year 1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have received its name from the following trivial circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into the water, a bystander cried out, “O, how she scoons!” Robinson replied, “ A scooner let her be;” and, from that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by this name. The word scoon is popularly used in some parts of New England to denote the act of making stones skip along the surface of water. The Scottish scon means the same thing. Both words are probably allied to the Icel. skunda, skynda, to make haste, hurry, AS. scunian to avoid, shun, Prov. E. scun. In the New England records, the word appears to have been originally written scooner. Babson, in his “History of Gloucester, ” gives the following extract from a letter written in that place Sept. 25, 1721, by Dr. Moses Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist of New England: “This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was first contriver of schooners, and built the first of that sort about eight years since.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. ] A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sunnite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Oklahoma; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers. [ Spelt also spoony. ] [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Spooneys A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no doubt, whatever, that I was a lackadaisical young spooney. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]