n. [ From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia. ] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chap to cheapen. ] Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin.
Syn. -- hardboard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Chin. chop sort, quality. ] A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [ China ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stave for a cask. [ Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.
Syn. -- guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, cranberry-tree, Viburnum opulus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Antiq.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master. “I was the king's cupbearer.” Neh. i. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cup + board. ] 1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. “A cupboard love is seldom true.” Poor Robin. [ Colloq. ] --
To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [ Colloq. ] “My stomach cries cupboard.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Either of two large flaring bones, each forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis.
Syn. -- innominate bone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Hunchback. ] 1. A crooked back; a humped back. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A humpbacked person; a hunchback. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and Megaptera osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is Megaptera versabilis. (b) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America; the humpbacked salmon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a humped back. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the humpback{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) The bladder campion (Silene inflata). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lamp + black. ] The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Carp.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of sauce boat or dish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Biochem.) [ Initialism ] Phosphate-buffered saline, a saline solution containing a phosphate buffer.
Syn. -- phosphate-buffered saline. [ PJC ]

2. [ Initialism ] Public Broadcasting System; a system of non-profit radio and television broadcasting stations. [ PJC ]

n. [ From E. rasp, in allusion to the apparent roughness of the fruit. ] (Bot.) (a) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry. (b) The shrub bearing this fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Technically, raspberries are those brambles in which the fruit separates readily from the core or receptacle, in this differing from the blackberries, in which the fruit is firmly attached to the receptacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (Viburnum Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices petty thefts. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ship + board. See Board, n., 8 ] A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boy employed in a shop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A board sliding in grooves. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any troupial. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To fasten with a bar. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

One short sigh of breath, upbore
Even to the seat of God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A monstrous wave upbore
The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bind up. [ R. ] Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To inflate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Upbraided; p. pr. & vb. n. Upbraiding. ] [ OE. upbreiden; AS. upp up + bregdan to draw, twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregða to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid. See Up, and Braid, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. [ 1913 Webster ]

And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vet do not
Upbraid us our distress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20 [ 1913 Webster ]

How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To treat with contempt. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To reproach; blame; censure; condemn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter upbraidings. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reproaching; contumely. [ Obs. ] “ Foul upbraid.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]