1828 Webster Spelling List Generated on February 7, 2012, 1:21 pm using random seed 12860
ALLGUIDING,
a. Guiding or conducting all things.
ARMFUL,
n. As much as the arms can hold.
BAWCOCK
n. A fine fellow.
CANDIED
pp. or a. Preserved with sugar, or incrusted with it; covered with
crystals of sugar or ice, or with matter resembling them; as candied
raisins.
CHAMPING
pp. Biting with repeated action.
COMPATIENT
a. Suffering together.
CONTRISTATION
n. The act of making sad. [Not used.]
DAGGER
n.
1. A short sword; a poniard.
2. In fencing schools, a blunt blade of iron with a basket hilt, used for defense.
3. With printers, and obelisk, or obelus, a mark of reference in the form of a dagger.
DEMURENESS
n. Gravity of countenance; soberness; a modest look.
DEOBSTRUCTING
ppr. Removing impediments to a passage.
DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS
n. Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.
FUMATORY,
n. [L. fumaria herba.]
A plant or genus of plants, called Fumaria, of several species.
INTELLIGENTIAL
a. Consisting of unbodied mind.
Food alike those pure
Intelligential substances require.
1. Intellectual; exercising understanding.
MISLEADER
n. One who leads into error.
MISS
n.
1. The title of a young woman or girl; as little masters and misses.
2. A kept mistress; a prostitute retained; a concubine.
MISS
v.t. [L. mitto, misi; omitto, omisi.]
1. To fail in aim; to fail of reaching the object; not to hit; as, to miss the mark; to miss the object intended.
2. To fail of finding the right way; to err in attempting to find; as, to miss the way or the road.
3. To fail of obtaining.
Orgalus feared nothing but to miss Parthenia.
4.
To learn or discover that something is wanting, or not where it was
supposed to be; as, to miss ones snuffbox; I missed the first volume
of Livy.
Neither missed we any thing. Nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. 1 Sam.25.
5. To be without; as, we cannot miss him.
6. To omit; to pass by; to go without; to fail to have; as, to miss a meal of victuals.
She would never miss one day
A walk so fine, a sight so gay.
7. To perceive the want of.
What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss,
He who has a firm sincere friend, may want all the rest without missing them.
8. To fail of seeing or finding.
MISS
v.i. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Flying bullets now,
To execute his rage, appear too slow;
They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
1. Not to succeed; to fail.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss
2. To fail; to miscarry, as by accident.
The invention all admired, and each, how he
To be the inventor missed.
3. To fail to obtain, learn or find; with of.
On the least reflection, we can miss of them.
4. To fail; to mistake.
MISS
n. Loss; want.
There will be no great miss of those which are lost.
1. Mistake; error.
He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. [Little used.]
2. Harm from mistake.
OCCULTATION,
n. [L. occultatio.]
1. a hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet.
2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.
RETIREDNESS,
n. A state of retirement; solitude; privacy or secrecy.
RUMBLE,
v.i. [Heb., Gr., L. fremo.]
To
make a low, heavy, continued sound; as thunder rumbles at a distance,
but when near, its sound is sharp and rattling. A heavy carriage
rumbles on the pavement.
TANTALIZER
n. One that tantalizes.
TREAD
v.i. tred. pret. trod; pp. trod, troden. [L. trudo.]
1. To set the foot.
Whereer you tread, the blushing flowrs shall rise.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
2. To walk or go.
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours. Deut.11.
3. To walk with form or state.
Ye that stately tread, or lowly creep.
4. To copulate, as fowls.
To tread or tread on, to trample; to set the foot on in contempt.
Thou shalt tread upon their high places. Det.33.
TREAD
v.t. tred. To step or walk on.
Forbid to tread the promisd land he saw.
1. To press under the feet.
2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well trodden path.
3. To walk in a formal or stately manner.
He thought she trod the ground with greater grace.
4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue. Ps.44. 60.
5. To compress, as a fowl.
To tread the state, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.
To tread or tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses.
They tread their wine presses and suffer thirst. Job.24.
TREAD
n. tred. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread.
1. Way; track; path. [Little used.]
2. Compression of the male fowl.
3. Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread.
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