v. t. [ Pref. ad- + freight: cf. F. affréter. See Freight. ] To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. affrétement. ] The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. ambréine. See Amber. ] (Chem.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
Syn. -- genus Argyreia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an island in the Persian Gulf; same as Bahrain.
Syn. -- Bahrain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an island country in the Persian Gulf.
Syn. -- Bahrain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bahrain.
Syn. -- Bahraini. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a true bug.
Syn. -- coreid bug. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family containing the squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.
Syn. -- family Coreidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. corporeitas: cf. F. corpor&unr_;it&unr_;. ] The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. [ 1913 Webster ]

The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner. ] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. darrein, darrain, fr. an assumed LL. deretranus; L. de + retro back, backward. ] (Law) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. Same as Darraign. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Di- + ureide. ] (Chem.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., fr. drei three + bund league. ] A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a toy shaped somewhat like a top, but having four flat sides, each marked with one of the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he, or shin. It is spun like a top, and the letter showing when it stops spinning determines the outcome of a game of chance. [ PJC ]

2. a game of chance played with a dreidel{ 1 }, most commonly by children at Hannukah. [ PJC ]

v. i. To drain. [ Obs. ] Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp., /wordforms> p. p. of Drench to drown. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (Dreissena polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, Forest, Forum. ] 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. “Foreign worlds.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. “Domestic and foreign writers.” Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. --
Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story. --
Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. --
Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous; extrinsic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. born in another area or country than that lived in; -- of persons.
Syn. -- nonnative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joy is such a foreigner,
So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foreign. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after the German chemist Freiesleben. ] A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fret, OHG. frēht merit, reward. See Fraught, n. ] 1. That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired. (b) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Freight transportation, or freight line. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car. [ 1913 Webster ]

Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods. --
Freight car. See under Car. --
Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Freighting. ] [ Cf. F. freter. ] To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The transportation of freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One employed in receiving and forwarding freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One for whom freight is transported. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vessel used mainly to carry freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Freiherrn /plu>. [ G., lit., free lord. ] In Germany and Austria, a baron. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Metal.) Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Greet, to weep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. greiði. See Greith, v. ] Goods; furniture. [ Obs. ] See Graith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Icel. greiða: cf. AS. ger&aemacr_;dan to arrange; pref. ge- + r&aemacr_;de ready. Cf. Ready. ] To make ready; -- often used reflexively. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. h&unr_;rinne. ] In this. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Into this. Hooker.

‖n. [ NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis. ] (Zool.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellæ, and their setæ become longer and bladelike. [ 1913 Webster ]