1828 Webster Spelling List Generated on September 9, 2010, 9:16 pm using random seed 60805
ALLHURTING,
a. Hurting all things.
ALMSMEN,
ANTECEDE,
v.t. [ante and cedo, to go. See Cede.] To go before in time; to precede.
APOGON,
n. A fish of the Mediterranean, the summit of whose head is elevated.
APPLETREE,
n.
A tree arranged by Linne under the genus pyrus. The fruit of this tree
is indefinitely various. The crab apple is supposed to be the original
kind, from which all others have sprung. New varieties are springing
annually from the seeds.
BESPEAKER
n. One who bespeaks.
BLOMARY
n. [See Bloom, a mass if iron.] The first forge through which iron passes, after it is melted from the ore.
COLLARBONE
n. The clavicle.
CROUT, KROUT
n. [G., an herb.] Sour crout is made by laying minced or chopped
cabbage in layers in a barrel, with a handful of salt and caraway seeds
between the layers; then ramming down the whole, covering it, pressing
it with a heavy weight, and suffering it to stand, till it has gone
through fermentation. It is an efficacious preservative against scurvy
in long voyages.
ENDLESSNESS
n. Extension without end or limit.
1. Perpetuity; endless duration.
ENMARBLE
v.t. To make hard as marble; to harden.
HOMELINESS
n. [from homely.] Plainness of features; want of beauty. It expresses less than ugliness.
1. Rudeness; coarseness; as the homeliness of dress or of sentiments.
OBLITERATED,
pp. Effaced; erased; worn out; destroyed.
PIPER
n. One who plays on a pipe or wind instrument.
PROVE
v.t. prov. [L. probo.]
1.
To try; to ascertain some unknown quality or truth by an experiment, or
by a test or standard. Thus we prove the strength of gunpowder by
experiment; we prove the strength or solidity of cannon by experiment.
We prove the contents of a vessel by comparing it with a standard
measure.
2. To evince, establish or ascertain as truth,
reality or fact, by testimony or other evidence. The plaintiff in a
suit, must prove the truth of his declaration; the prosecutor must
prove his charges against the accused.
3. To evince
truth by argument, induction or reasoning; to deduce certain
conclusions from propositions that are true or admitted. If it is
admitted that every immoral act is dishonorable to a rational being,
and that dueling is an immoral act; then it is proved by necessary
inference, that dueling is dishonorable to a rational being.
4. To ascertain the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
5.
To experience; to try by suffering or encountering; to gain certain
knowledge by the operation of something on ourselves, or by some act of
our own.
Let him in arms the power of Turnus prove.
6.
In arithmetic, to show, evince or ascertain the correctness of any
operation or result. Thus in subtraction, if the difference between two
numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater,
the correctness of the subtraction is proved. In other words, if the
sum of the remainder and of the subtrahend, is equal to the minuend,
the operation of subtraction is proved to be correct.
7. To try; to examine.
Prove your own selves. 2 Cor. 13.
8.
Men prove God, when by their provocations they put his patience to
trial, Ps.95.; or when by obedience they make trial how much he will
countenance such conduct, Mal.3.
PROVE
v.i. To make trial; to essay.
The sons prepare
To prove by arms whose fate it was to reign.
1. To be found or to have its qualities ascertained by experience or trial; as, a plant or medicine proves salutary.
2. To be ascertained by the event or something subsequent; as the report proves to be true, or proves to be false.
3. To be found true or correct by the result.
4. To make certain; to show; to evince.
This argument proves how erroneous is the common opinion.
5. To succeed.
If the experiment proved not
[Not in use.]
SALMON,
n. sammon. [L. salmo.]
A
fish of the genus Salmo, found in all the northern climates of America,
Europe and Asia, ascending the rivers for spawning in spring, and
penetrating to their head streams. It is a remarkably strong fish, and
will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of its
progress. It has been known to grow to the weight of 75 pounds; more
generally it is from 15 to 25 pounds. It furnishes a delicious dish for
the table, and is an article of commerce.
SARCASM,
n. [l. sarcasmus; Gr. from to deride or sneer at, primarily to fly or pluck off the skin.]
A
keen reproachful expression; a satirical remark or expression, uttered
with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe. Of this we have
an example in the remark of the Jews respecting Christ, on the cross,
"He saved others, himself he cannot save."
STOICISM
n.
1. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
2. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility.
SUPEREMINENCE
WHISTLE
v.i. hwisl. [L., a whistle; allied to whisper.]
1. To utter a kind of musical sound, by pressing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips.
While the plowman near at hand, whistles oer the furrowd land.
2. To make a sound with a small wind instrument.
3. To sound shrill, or like a pipe.
The wild winds whistle, and the billows roar.
WHISTLE
v.t.
1. To form, utter or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or air.
2. To call by a whistle; as, he whistled back his dog.
WHISTLE
n. [L.]
1. A small wind instrument.
2. The sound made by a small wind instrument.
3. Sound made by pressing the breath through a small orifice of the lips.
4. The mouth; the organ of whistling. [Vulgar.]
5. A small pipe, used by a boatswain to summon the sailors to their duty; the boatswains call.
6. The shrill sound of winds passing among trees or through crevices, &c.
7. A call, such as sportsmen use to their dogs.
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