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35 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. {Lay} (l[=a]); p. p. {Lain} (l[=a]n), ({Lien} (l[imac]"[e^]n), Obs.); p. pr & vb n. {Lying}.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja Sw ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, L. lectus bed, Gr le`chos bed, le`xasqai to lie. Cf {Lair}, {Law}, {Lay}, v. t., {Litter}, {Low}, adj.] 1. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be or to put one's self in an horizontal position, or nearly so to be prostate; to be stretched out -- often with down when predicated of living creatures; as the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again and closed his weary eyes. --Dryden. 2. To be situated; to occupy a certain place as Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. 3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. 4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place to consist; -- with in Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. --Collier. He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --Locke. 5. To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. --Evelyn. Mr Quinion lay at our house that night. --Dickens. 6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. The wind is loud and will not lie. --Shak. 7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. ``An appeal lies in this case.'' --Parsons. Note: Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive verb and has for its preterit laid; as he told me to lay it down and I laid it down Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as he told me to lie down and I lay down Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie; as he told me to lie down and I laid down So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay, and not of lie. {To lie along the shore} (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight. {To lie at the door of}, to be imputable to as the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door. {To lie at the heart}, to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. --Sir W. Temple. {To lie at the mercy of}, to be in the power of {To lie by}. a To remain with to be at hand; as he has the manuscript lying by him b To rest; to intermit labor; as we lay by during the heat of the day {To lie hard} or {heavy}, to press or weigh; to bear hard. {To lie in}, to be in childbed; to bring forth young. {To lie in one}, to be in the power of to belong to ``As much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men.'' --Rom. xii. 18. {To lie in the way}, to be an obstacle or impediment. {To lie in wait}, to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush. {To lie on} or {upon}. a To depend on as his life lies on the result. b To bear, rest, press, or weigh on {To lie low}, to remain in concealment or inactive. [Slang] {To lie on hand}, {To lie on one's hands}, to remain unsold or unused; as the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands. {To lie on the head of}, to be imputed to What he gets more of her than sharp words let it lie on my head. --Shak. {To lie over}. a To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. b To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body. {To lie to} (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf {To bring to}, under {Bring}. {To lie under}, to be subject to to suffer; to be oppressed by {To lie with}. a To lodge or sleep with b To have sexual intercourse with c To belong to as it lies with you to make amends. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lot \Lot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lotted}; p. pr & vb n. {Lotting}.] To allot; to sort; to portion. [R.] {To lot on} or {upon}, to count or reckon upon to expect with pleasure. [Colloq. U. S.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Look that ye bind them fast --Shak. Look if it be my daughter. --Talfourd. 6. To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as look out of the window while I speak to you Sometimes used figuratively. My toes look through the overleather. --Shak. 7. To await the appearance of anything to expect; to anticipate. Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall. --Spenser. {To look about}, to look on all sides, or in different directions. {To look about one}, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded. {To look after}. a To attend to to take care of as to look after children. b To expect; to be in a state of expectation. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. --Luke xxi. 26. c To seek; to search. My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. --Woodward. {To look at}, to direct the eyes toward so that one sees, or as if to see as to look at a star; hence to observe, examine, consider; as to look at a matter without prejudice. {To look black}, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. --Holinshed. {To look down on} or {upon}, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. {To look for}. a To expect; as to look for news by the arrival of a ship. ``Look now for no enchanting voice.'' --Milton. b To seek for to search for as to look for lost money, or lost cattle. {To look forth}. a To look out of something as from a window. b To threaten to come out --Jer. vi 1. (Rev. Ver.). {To look into}, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as to look into the works of nature; to look into one's conduct or affairs. {To look on}. a To regard; to esteem. Her friends would look on her the worse. --Prior. b To consider; to view; to conceive of to think of I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. --Dryden. c To be a mere spectator. I'll be a candleholder, and look on --Shak. {To look out}, to be on the watch; to be careful; as the seaman looks out for breakers. {To look through}. a To see through b To search; to examine with the eyes. {To look to} or {unto}. a To watch; to take care of ``Look well to thy herds.'' --Prov. xxvii. 23. b To resort to with expectation of receiving something to expect to receive from as the creditor may look to surety for payment. ``Look unto me and be ye saved.'' --Is. xlv. 22. {To look up}, to search for or find out by looking; as to look up the items of an account. {To look up to}, to respect; to regard with deference. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Venture \Ven"ture\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ventured}; p. pr & vb n. {Venturing}.] 1. To hazard one's self to have the courage or presumption to do undertake, or say something to dare. --Bunyan. 2. To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances. Who freights a ship to venture on the seas. --J. Dryden, Jr {To venture at}, or {To venture on} or {upon}, to dare to engage in to attempt without any certainty of success; as it is rash to venture upon such a project. ``When I venture at the comic style.'' --Waller. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: {To wait on} or {upon}. a To attend, as a servant; to perform services for as to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. ``Authority and reason on her wait.'' --Milton. ``I must wait on myself, must I?'' --Shak. b To attend; to go to see to visit on business or for ceremony. c To follow as a consequence; to await. ``That ruin that waits on such a supine temper.'' --Dr. H. More d To look watchfully at to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] ``It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye.'' --Bacon. e To attend to to perform. ``Aaron and his sons . . . shall wait on their priest's office.'' --Num. iii. 10. f (Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk. --Encyc. Brit. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Win \Win\, v. i. To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail. Nor is it aught but just That he who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms. --Milton. {To win of}, to be conqueror over [Obs.] --Shak. {To win on} or {upon}. a To gain favor or influence with ``You have a softness and beneficence winning on the hearts of others.'' --Dryden. b To gain ground on ``The rabble . . . will in time win upon power.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road]. --Spenser. {On}, or {Upon}, {the road}, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; on the way My hat and wig will soon be here They are upon the road. --Cowper. {Road agent}, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.] The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called --The century. {Road book}, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances. {Road metal}, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads. {Road roller}, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. -- often driven by steam. {Road runner} (Zo["o]l.), the chaparral cock. {Road steamer}, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads. {To go on the road}, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. [Colloq.] {To take the road}, to begin or engage in traveling. {To take to the road}, to engage in robbery upon the highways. Syn: Way highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See {Way}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 2. To take possession of by force. At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's sons. --Milton. 3. To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of to come upon suddenly; as a fever seizes a patient. Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul. --Pope. 4. (law) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. [Obs.] As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. --Spenser. 6. To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as to seize an idea. 7. (Naut.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as to seize ropes. Note: This word by writers on law, is commonly written seise, in the phrase to be seised of (an estate), as also in composition, disseise, disseisin. {To be seized of}, to have possession, or right of possession; as A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. ``Whom age might see seized of what youth made prize.'' --Chapman. {To seize on} or {upon}, to fall on and grasp; to take hold on to take possession of suddenly and forcibly. Syn: To catch; grasp; clutch; snatch; apprehend; arrest; take capture. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. i. 1. To pass below the horizon; to go down to decline to sink out of sight; to come to an end Ere the weary sun set in the west. --Shak. Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning. --Fuller. 2. To fit music to words [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. ``To sow dry, and set wet.'' --Old Proverb. 4. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form as cuttings set well the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom). 5. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened. A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another. --Bacon. 6. To congeal; to concrete; to solidify. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set --Boyle. 7. To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on to tend; as the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward. 8. To begin to move to go out or forth; to start -- now followed by out The king is set from London. --Shak. 9. To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as the dog sets well also to hunt game by the aid of a setter. 10. To apply one's self to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him --Hammond. 11. To fit or suit one to sit as the coat sets well Note: [Colloquially used but improperly, for sit.] Note: The use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen, etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved. {To set about}, to commence; to begin. {To set forward}, to move or march; to begin to march; to advance. {To set forth}, to begin a journey. {To set in}. a To begin; to enter upon a particular state; as winter set in early. b To settle one's self to become established. ``When the weather was set in to be very bad.'' --Addison. c To flow toward the shore; -- said of the tide. {To set off}. a To enter upon a journey; to start b (Typog.) To deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry. {To set on} or {upon}. a To begin, as a journey or enterprise; to set about He that would seriously set upon the search of truth. --Locke. b To assault; to make an attack. --Bacon. Cassio hath here been set on in the dark. --Shak. {To set out}, to begin a journey or course; as to set out for London, or from London; to set out in business;to set out in life or the world. {To set to}, to apply one's self to {To set up}. a To begin business or a scheme of life; as to set up in trade to set up for one's self b To profess openly; to make pretensions. Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part --Swift. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Settle \Set"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Settled}; p. pr & vb n. {Settling}.] [OE. setlen, AS setlan. [root]154. See {Settle}, n. In senses 7, 8, and 9 perhaps confused with OE sahtlen to reconcile, AS sahtlian fr saht reconciliation, sacon to contend, dispute. Cf {Sake}.] 1. To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him until he was ashamed. --2 Kings viii. 11. (Rev. Ver.) The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son. --Dryden. 2. To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as to settle a minister. [U. S.] 3. To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still to calm; to compose. God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake. --Chapman. Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. --Bunyan. 4. To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee. 5. To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like as clear weather settles the roads. 6. To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence also to render close or compact; as to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it 7. To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance. It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. --Swift. 8. To adjust as something in discussion; to make up to compose; to pacify; as to settle a quarrel. 9. To adjust as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as to settle an account. 10. Hence to pay as to settle a bill. [Colloq.] --Abbott. 11. To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620. {To settle on} or {upon}, to confer upon by permanent grant; to assure to ``I . . . have settled upon him a good annuity.'' --Addison. {To settle the land} (Naut.), to cause it to sink, or appear lower, by receding from it Syn: To fix; establish; regulate; arrange; compose; adjust determine; decide. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spring \Spring\, v. i. [imp. {Sprang}or {Sprung}; p. p. {Sprung}; p. pr & vb n. {Springing}.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw springa, Dan. springe; cf Gr ? to hasten. Cf {Springe}, {Sprinkle}.] 1. To leap; to bound; to jump. The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. --Philips. 2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. --Dryden. 3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. --Otway. 4. To fly back as a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. 5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning. 6. To shoot up out or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like -often followed by up forth, or out Till well nigh the day began to spring. --Chaucer. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. --Job xxxviii 27. Do not blast my springing hopes. --Rowe. O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. --Pope. 7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause motive, reason, or principle. [They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked. --Milton. 8. To grow; to prosper. What makes all this but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring? --Dryden. {To spring at}, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a leap. {To spring forth}, to leap out to rush out {To spring in}, to rush in to enter with a leap or in haste. {To spring on} or {upon}, to leap on to rush on with haste or violence; to assault. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spit \Spit\, v. i. 1. To throw out saliva from the mouth. 2. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles. It had been spitting with rain. --Dickens. {To spit on} or {upon}, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. ``Spitting upon all antiquity.'' --South. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spot \Spot\, n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See {Spit} to eject from the mouth, and cf {Spatter}.] 1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored. Out damned spot! Out I say! --Shak. 2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. Yet Chloe, sure was formed without a spot. --Pope. 3. A small part of a different color from the main part or from the ground upon which it is as the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card. 4. A small extent of space; a place any particular place ``Fixed to one spot.'' --Otway. That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton. ``A jolly place,'' said he ``in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.'' --Wordsworth. 5. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak. 6. (Zo["o]l.) a A sci[ae]noid food fish ({Liostomus xanthurus}) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also {goody}, {Lafayette}, {masooka}, and {old wife}. b The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See {Redfish}. 7. pl Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] {Crescent spot} (Zo["o]l.), any butterfly of the family {Melit[ae]id[ae]} having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. {Spot lens} (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called also {spotted lens}. {Spot rump} (Zo["o]l.), the Hudsonian godwit ({Limosa h[ae]mastica}). {Spots on the sun}. (Astron.) See {Sun spot}, ander {Sun}. {On}, or {Upon}, {the spot}, immediately; before moving without changing place It was determined upon the spot. --Swift. Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place site; locality. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Square \Square\, n. [OF. esquarre esquierre F. ['e]querre a carpenter's square (cf. It squadra), fr (assumed) LL exquadrare to make square; L. ex + quadrus a square, fr quattuor four See {Four}, and cf {Quadrant}, {Squad}, {Squer} a square.] 1. (Geom.) a The corner, or angle, of a figure. [Obs.] b A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles. 2. Hence anything which is square, or nearly so as: a A square piece or fragment. He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches. --Sir W. Scott. b A pane of glass. c (Print.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers. d (Carp.) One hundred superficial feet. 3. An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side sometimes a solid block of houses; also an open place or area for public use as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets. The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town. --Addison. 4. (Mech. & Joinery) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc 5. Hence a pattern or rule [Obs.] 6. (Arith. & Alg.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself thus 64 is the square of 8, for 8 [times] 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a^{2} + 2ab + b^{2}. 7. Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. --Hooker. I have not kept my square. --Shak. 8. (Mil.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron. ``The brave squares of war.'' --Shak. 9. Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level. We live not on the square with such as these --Dryden. 10. (Astrol.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other a quadrate. [Obs.] 11. The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel. [R.] 12. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. [Obs.] --Shak. {Geometrical square}. See {Quadrat}, n., 2. {Hollow square} (Mil.), a formation of troops in the shape of a square, each side consisting of four or five ranks, and the colors, officers, horses, etc., occupying the middle. {Least square}, {Magic square}, etc See under {Least}, {Magic}, etc {On the square}, or {Upon the square}, in an open fair manner; honestly, or upon honor. [Obs. or Colloq.] {On}, or {Upon}, {the square with}, upon equality with even with --Nares. {To be all squares}, to be all settled. [Colloq.] --Dickens. {To be at square}, to be in a state of quarreling. [Obs.] --Nares. {To break no square}, to give no offense; to make no difference. [Obs.] {To break squares}, to depart from an accustomed order {To see how the squares go}, to see how the game proceeds; -- a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chessboard being formed with squares. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr & vb n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL passare, fr L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out lay open See {Pace}.] 1. To go to move to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as to pass on by out in etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc ``But now pass over [i. e., pass on].'' --Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as the business has passed into other hands. Others dissatisfied with what they have . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away hence to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. Disturb him not let him pass paceably. --Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence to take place to occur; to happen; to come to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by as time; to elapse; to be spent; as their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi 35 6. To go from one person to another; hence to be given and taken freely; as clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. ``Let him pass for a man.'' --Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him --Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on to be tolerated; hence to continue; to live along ``The play may pass.'' --Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] ``This passes, Master Ford.'' --Shak. 12. To take heed; to care [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not --Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and {Come}. {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. ``The heavens shall pass away.'' --2 Pet. iii. 10. ``I thought to pass away before but yet alive I am.'' --Tennyson. {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or place as he passed by as we stood there {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with {To pass on}, to proceed. {To pass on} or {upon}. a To happen to to come upon to affect. ``So death passed upon all men.'' --Rom. v. 12. ``Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.'' --Jer. Taylor. b To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon ``We may not pass upon his life.'' --Shak. {To pass off}, to go away to cease; to disappear; as an agitation passes off {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strength \Strength\, n. [OE. strengthe, AS streng[eth]u, fr strang strong. See {Strong}.] 1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment. All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were --Chaucer. Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty. --Milton. 2. Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to {frangibility}; as the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like ``The brittle strength of bones.'' --Milton. 3. Power of resisting attacks; impregnability. ``Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.'' --Shak. 4. That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument. 5. One who or that which is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security. God is our refuge and strength. --Ps. xlvi. 1. What they boded would be a mischief to us you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths. --Sprat. Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation. --Jer. Taylor. 6. Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like as what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea? 7. Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work And praise the easy vigor of a life Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join --Pope. 8. Intensity; -- said of light or color. Bright Ph[oe]bus in his strength. --Shak. 9. Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as the strength of wine or of acids. 10. A strong place a stronghold. [Obs.] --Shak. {On}, or {Upon}, {the strength of}, in reliance upon ``The allies, after a successful summer, are too apt, upon the strength of it to neglect their preparations for the ensuing campaign.'' --Addison. Syn: Force; robustness; toughness; hardness; stoutness; brawniness; lustiness; firmness; puissance; support; spirit; validity; authority. See {Force}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tapis \Ta"pis\, n. [F. See {Tapestry}.] Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table. {On}, or {Upon}, {the tapis}, on the table, or under consideration; as to lay a motion in Parliament on the tapis. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prey \Prey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Preyed}; p. pr & vb n. {Preying}.] [OF. preier, preer, L. praedari fr praeda See {Prey}, n.] To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence. More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. --Shak. {To prey on} or {upon}. a To take prey from to despoil; to pillage; to rob. --Shak. b To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour. --Shak. c To wear away gradually; to cause to waste or pine away as the trouble preyed upon his mind. --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: {To throw on}, to cast on to load. {To throw one's self down}, to lie down neglectively or suddenly. {To throw one's self on} or {upon}. a To fall upon b To resign one's self to the favor, clemency, or sustain power of (another); to repose upon {To throw out}. a To cast out to reject or discard; to expel. ``The other two whom they had thrown out they were content should enjoy their exile.'' --Swift. ``The bill was thrown out.'' --Swift. b To utter; to give utterance to to speak; as to throw out insinuation or observation. ``She throws out thrilling shrieks.'' --Spenser. c To distance; to leave behind. --Addison. d To cause to project; as to throw out a pier or an abutment. e To give forth; to emit; as an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light. f To put out to confuse; as a sudden question often throws out an orator. {To throw over}, to abandon the cause of to desert; to discard; as to throw over a friend in difficulties. {To throw up}. a To resign; to give up to demit; as to throw up a commission. ``Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand.'' --Addison. b To reject from the stomach; to vomit. c To construct hastily; as to throw up a breastwork of earth. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Touch \Touch\, v. i. 1. To be in contact to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as two spheres touch only at points. --Johnson. 2. To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. [R.] Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon gold, that will not touch upon silver. --Bacon. 3. To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon If the antiquaries have touched upon it they immediately quitted it --Addison. 4. (Naut) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. {To touch and go} (Naut.), to touch bottom lightly and without damage, as a vessel in motion. {To touch at}, to come or go to without tarrying; as the ship touched at Lisbon. {To touch on} or {upon}, to come or go to for a short time. [R.] I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts. --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: . e To push from land; as to put off a boat. {To put on} or {upon}. a To invest one's self with as clothes; to assume. ``Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.'' --L'Estrange. b To impute something to to charge upon as to put blame on or upon another. c To advance; to promote. [Obs.] ``This came handsomely to put on the peace.'' --Bacon. d To impose; to inflict. ``That which thou puttest on me will I bear.'' --2 Kings xviii. 14. e To apply; as to put on workmen; to put on steam. f To deceive; to trick. ``The stork found he was put upon.'' --L'Estrange. g To place upon as a means or condition; as he put him upon bread and water. ``This caution will put them upon considering.'' --Locke. h (Law) To rest upon to submit to as a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. {To put out}. a To eject; as to put out and intruder. b To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. c To extinguish; as to put out a candle, light, or fire. d To place at interest; to loan; as to put out funds. e To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] f To protrude; to stretch forth; as to put out the hand. g To publish; to make public; as to put out a pamphlet. h To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as to put one out in reading or speaking. i (Law) To open as to put out lights, that is to open or cut windows. --Burrill. j (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as to put out the ankle. k To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. {To put over}. a To place (some one) in authority over as to put a general over a division of an army. b To refer. For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. c To defer; to postpone; as the court put over the cause to the next term. d To transfer (a person or thing) across as to put one over the river. {To put the hand} {to or unto}. a To take hold of as of an instrument of labor; as to put the hand to the plow; hence to engage in (any task or affair); as to put one's hand to the work b To take or seize, as in theft. ``He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.'' --Ex. xxii. 11. {To put through}, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence to push to completion; to accomplish; as he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] {To put to}. a To add to unite; as to put one sum to another. b To refer to to expose; as to put the safety of the state to hazard. ``That dares not put it to the touch.'' --Montrose. c To attach something to to harness beasts to --Dickens. {To put to a stand}, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. {To put to bed}. a To undress and place in bed, as a child. b To deliver in or to make ready for childbirth. {To put to death}, to kill. {To put together}, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one {To put this and that} (or {two and two}) {together}, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. {To put to it}, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to ``O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.'' --Shak. {To put to rights}, to arrange in proper order to settle or compose rightly. {To put to the sword}, to kill with the sword; to slay. {To put to trial}, or {on trial}, to bring to a test; to try {To put trust in}, to confide in to repose confidence in {To put up}. a To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with as to put up indignities. [Obs.] ``Such national injuries are not to be put up.'' --Addison. b To send forth or upward; as to put up goods for sale. d To start from a cover, as game. ``She has been frightened; she has been put up.'' --C. Kingsley. e To hoard. ``Himself never put up any of the rent.'' --Spelman. f To lay side or preserve; to pack away to store; to pickle; as to put up pork, beef, or fish. g To place out of sight, or away to put in its proper place as put up that letter. --Shak. h To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to as he put the lad up to mischief. i To raise; to erect; to build; as to put up a tent, or a house. j To lodge; to entertain; as to put up travelers. {To put up a job}, to arrange a plot. [Slang] Syn: To place set lay; cause produce; propose; state. Usage: {Put}, {Lay}, {Place}, {Set}. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p. pr & vb n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS tredan; akin to OFries treda, OS tredan, D. & LG treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro?a, Sw tr[*a]da, tr["a]da, Dan. tr[ae]de, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf Gr ? a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf {Trade}, {Tramp}, {Trot}.] 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. --Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go --Chaucer. 2. To walk or go especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. 3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. {To tread on} or {upon}. a To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. ``Thou shalt tread upon their high places.'' --Deut. xxxiii 29. b to follow closely. ``Year treads on year.'' --Wordsworth. {To tread upon the heels of}, to follow close upon ``Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.'' --Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: {To turn one's coat}, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. {To turn one's goods} or {money}, and the like to exchange in the course of trade to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade {To turn one's hand to}, to adapt or apply one's self to to engage in {To turn out}. a To drive out to expel; as to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. -- Shak. b to put to pasture, as cattle or horses. c To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. d To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence to produce. e To cause to cease, or to put out by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like as to turn out the lights. {To turn over}. a To change or reverse the position of to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over b To transfer; as to turn over business to another hand. c To read or examine, as a book, while turning the leaves. ``We turned o'er many books together.'' --Shak. d To handle in business; to do business to the amount of as he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] {To turn over a new leaf}. See under {Leaf}. {To turn tail}, to run away to retreat ignominiously. {To turn the back}, to flee; to retreat. {To turn the back on} or {upon}, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. {To turn the corner}, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence to begin to improve, or to succeed. {To turn the die} or {dice}, to change fortune. {To turn the edge} or {point of}, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. {To turn the head} or {brain of}, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of as a little success turned his head. {To turn the scale} or {balance}, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. {To turn the stomach of}, to nauseate; to sicken. {To turn the tables}, to reverse the chances or conditions of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. {To turn tippet}, to make a change. [Obs.] --B. Jonson {To turn to} {profit, advantage}, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. {To turn up}. a To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top as to turn up the trump. b To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc c To give an upward curve to to tilt; as to turn up the nose. {To turn upon}, to retort; to throw back as to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. {To turn upside down}, to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Turn \Turn\, v. i. 1. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. --Milton. 2. Hence to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as the decision turns on a single fact Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. --Swift. 3. To result or terminate; to come about to eventuate; to issue. If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. --Wake. 4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as to turn from the road. Turn from thy fierce wrath. --Ex. xxxii 12. Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways. --Ezek. xxxiii 11. The understanding turns inward on itself and reflects on its own operations. --Locke. 5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also to become by a change or changes; to grow; as wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. I hope you have no intent to turn husband. --Shak. Cygnets from gray turn white. --Bacon. 6. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as ivory turns well 7. Specifically: a To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc b To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. I'll look no more Lest my brain turn. --Shak. c To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. d To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. e To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. f (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. {To turn about}, to face to another quarter; to turn around {To turn again}, to come back after going; to return. --Shak. {To turn against}, to become unfriendly or hostile to {To turn} {aside or away}. a To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a company; to deviate. b To depart; to remove. c To avert one's face. {To turn back}, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction; to retrace one's steps. {To turn in}. a To bend inward. b To enter for lodgings or entertainment. c To go to bed. [Colloq.] {To turn into}, to enter by making a turn; as to turn into a side street. {To turn off}, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as the road turns off to the left {To turn on} or {upon}. a To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger. b To reply to or retort. c To depend on as the result turns on one condition. {To turn out}. a To move from its place as a bone. b To bend or point outward; as his toes turn out c To rise from bed. [Colloq.] d To come abroad; to appear; as not many turned out to the fire. e To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as the crops turned out poorly. {To turn over}, to turn from side to side to roll; to tumble. {To turn round}. a To change position so as to face in another direction. b To change one's opinion; to change from one view or party to another. {To turn to}, to apply one's self to have recourse to to refer to ``Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all occasions.'' --Locke. {To turn to account}, {profit}, {advantage}, or the like to be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the while {To turn under}, to bend, or be folded, downward or under {To turn up}. a To bend, or be doubled, upward. b To appear; to come to light; to transpire; to occur; to happen. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reckon \Reck"on\, v. i. 1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. --Shak. 2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. ``Parfay,'' sayst thou, ``sometime he reckon shall.'' --Chaucer. {To reckon for}, to answer for to pay the account for ``If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.'' --Bp. Sanderson. {To reckon on} or {upon}, to count or depend on {To reckon with}, to settle accounts or claims with -- used literally or figuratively. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them --Matt. xxv. 19. {To reckon without one's host}, to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence to reckon erroneously. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Upon \Up*on"\, prep.[AS. uppan uppon; upp up + on an on See {Up}, and {On}.] On -- used in all the senses of that word with which it is interchangeable. ``Upon an hill of flowers.'' --Chaucer. Our host upon his stirrups stood anon. --Chaucer. Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar. --Ex. xxix. 21. The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. --Judg. xvi. 9. As I did stand my watch upon the hill. --Shak. He made a great difference between people that did rebel upon wantonness, and them that did rebel upon want --Bacon. This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms. --Addison. Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer. --Pope. He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. --Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence. --Landor. Note: Upon conveys a more distinct notion that on carries with it of something that literally or metaphorically bears or supports. It is less employed than it used to be on having for the most part taken its place Some expressions formed with it belong only to old style; as upon pity they were taken away that is in consequence of pity: upon the rate of thirty thousand; that is amounting to the rate: to die upon the hand; that is by means of the hand: he had a garment upon that is upon himself: the time is coming fast upon that is upon the present time. By the omission of its object, upon acquires an adverbial sense as in the last two examples. {To assure upon} (Law), to promise; to undertake. {To come upon}. See under {Come}. {To take upon}, to assume. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Down \Down\, adv [For older adown, AS ad?n, ad?ne, prop., from or off the hill. See 3d {Down}, and cf {Adown}, and cf {Adown}.] 1. In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up 2. Hence in many derived uses, as: a From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down --Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. --Tennyson. And that drags down his life. --Tennyson. There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down --Addison. The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English. --Shak. b In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like in a state of quiet. I was down and out of breath. --Shak. The moon is down I have not heard the clock. --Shak. He that is down needs fear no fall. --Bunyan. 3. From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. --D. Webster. 4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. --Arbuthnot. Note: Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go down come down tear down take down put down haul down pay down and the like especially in command or exclamation. Down therefore, and beg mercy of the duke. --Shak. If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down --Locke. Down is also used intensively; as to be loaded down to fall down to hang down to drop down to pay down The temple of Her[`e] at Argos was burnt down --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Down as well as up is sometimes used in a conventional sense as down East. Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and those in the provinces, up to London. --Stormonth. {Down helm} (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward. {Down on} or {upon} (joined with a verb indicating motion, as go come pounce), to attack, implying the idea of threatening power. Come down upon us with a mighty power. --Shak. {Down with}, take down throw down put down -- used in energetic command. ``Down with the palace; fire it.'' --Dryden. {To be down on}, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.] {To cry down}. See under {Cry}, v. t. {To cut down}. See under {Cut}, v. t. {Up and down}, with rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. ``Let them wander up and down.'' --Ps. lix. 15. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dwell \Dwell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dwelled}, usually contracted into {Dwelt} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Dwelling}.] [OE. dwellen, dwelien to err, linger, AS dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw dv["a]ljas to dwell, Dan. dv[ae]le to linger, and to E. dull. See {Dull}, and cf {Dwale}.] 1. To delay; to linger. [Obs.] 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. --Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. --Wordsworth. 3. To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place to reside. The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions. --Peacham. The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. --C. J. Smith. {To dwell in}, to abide in (a place); hence to depend on ``My hopes in heaven to dwell.'' --Shak. {To dwell on} or {upon}, to continue long on or in to remain absorbed with to stick to to make much of as to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. --Buckminster. Syn: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fasten \Fas"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fastened}; p. pr & vb n. {Fastening}.] [AS. f[ae]stnian; akin to OHG. festin[=o]n. See {Fast}, a.] 1. To fix firmly; to make fast to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something or to cleave together, by any means as to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts. The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them --Swift. 3. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell to lay on as to fasten a blow. [Obs.] --Dryden. If I can fasten but one cup upon him --Shak. {To fasten} {a charge, or a crime}, {upon}, to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed. {To fasten one's eyes upon}, to look upon steadily without cessation. --Acts iii. 4. Syn: To fix; cement; stick; link; affix; annex. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Father \Fa"ther\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fathered}; p. pr & vb n. {Fathering}.] 1. To make one's self the father of to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. --Shak. 2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence to assume as one's own work to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. --Swift. 3. To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ? --Shak. {To father on} or {upon}, to ascribe to or charge upon as one's offspring or work to put or lay upon as being responsible. ``Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor.'' --Barrow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gain \Gain\, v. i. To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as the sick man gains daily. Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. --Ezek. xxii. 12. {Gaining twist}, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle. {To gain on} or {upon}. a To encroach on as the ocean gains on the land. b To obtain influence with c To win ground upon to move faster than as in a race or contest. d To get the better of to have the advantage of The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself --Addison. My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. --Swift. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hit \Hit\, v. i. 1. To meet or come in contact to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? --Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them --Woodward. 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. --Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift. {To hit on} or {upon}, to light upon to come to by chance. ``None of them hit upon the art.'' --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cry \Cry\ (kr[imac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cried} (kr[imac]d); p. pr & vb n. {Crying}.] [F. crier, cf L. quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr queri to complain; cf Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf {Quarrel} a brawl, {Querulous}.] 1. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46. Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. --Shak. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps xxviii. 2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. --Is. xl 3. Some cried after him to return. --Bunyan. 2. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. --Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. --Shak. 3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. --Ps. cxlvii 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. --Shak. {To cry on} or {upon}, to call upon the name of to beseech. ``No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.'' --Shak. {To cry out}. a To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. b To complain loudly; to lament. {To cry out against}, to complain loudly of to censure; to blame. {To cry out on} or {upon}, to denounce; to censure. ``Cries out upon abuses.'' --Shak. {To cry to}, to call on in prayer; to implore. {To cry you mercy}, to beg your pardon. ``I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Impose \Im*pose"\, v. i. To practice trick or deception. {To impose on} or {upon}, to pass or put a trick on to delude. ``He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things.'' --Locke. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Improve \Im*prove"\, v. i. 1. To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as to improve in health. We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence. --Atterbury. 2. To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse. ``Domitain improved in cruelty.'' --Milner. 3. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as the price of cotton improves. {To improve on} or {upon}, to make useful additions or amendments to or changes in to bring nearer to perfection; as to improve on the mode of tillage.
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