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Welling
(gcide) | Well \Well\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Welled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Welling.] [OE. wellen, AS. wyllan, wellan, fr. weallan;
akin to OFries. walla, OS. & OHG. wallan, G. wallen, Icel.
vella, G. welle, wave, OHG. wella, walm, AS. wylm; cf. L.
volvere to roll, Gr. ? to inwrap, ? to roll. Cf. Voluble,
Wallop to boil, Wallow, Weld of metal.]
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
"[Blood] welled from out the wound." --Dryden. "[Yon spring]
wells softly forth." --Bryant.
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From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm,
Pure welling out, he through the lucid lake
Of fair Dambea rolls his infant streams. --Thomson.
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indwelling
(mass) | indwelling
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cliff dwelling
(encz) | cliff dwelling, n: |
dowelling
(encz) | dowelling, |
dwelling
(encz) | dwelling,obydlí n: Zdeněk Broždwelling,příbytek n: Zdeněk Brož |
dwelling house
(encz) | dwelling house, n: |
dwellings
(encz) | dwellings,obydlí pl. Zdeněk Broždwellings,příbytky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
indwelling
(encz) | indwelling,imanentní adj: Zdeněk Brožindwelling,vnitřní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
lake dwelling
(encz) | lake dwelling, n: |
pile dwelling
(encz) | pile dwelling, n: |
single dwelling
(encz) | single dwelling, n: |
soil swelling
(encz) | soil swelling,bobtnání půdy [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
swelling
(encz) | swelling,bobtnání Zdeněk Brožswelling,oteklina Jaroslav Šedivýswelling,otok Jaroslav Šedivýswelling,zduřenina Jaroslav Šedivý |
towelling
(encz) | towelling,froté Zdeněk Brožtowelling,utírání n: Zdeněk Brož |
upwelling
(encz) | upwelling, |
wellington
(encz) | wellington,gumák n: Zdeněk Brožwellington,holínka n: Zdeněk BrožWellington,hl.m. - Nový Zéland n: [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
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Bejewelling
(gcide) | Bejewel \Be*jew"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bejeweled or
Bejewelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bejeweling or Bejewelling.]
To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.
"Bejeweled hands." --Thackeray.
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Bowelling
(gcide) | Bowel \Bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.]
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
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Dowelling
(gcide) | Dowel \Dow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doweledor Dowelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Doweling or Dowelling.]
To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a
cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
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Dwelling
(gcide) | Dwelling \Dwell"ing\, n.
Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode;
domicile.
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Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. --Jer. xlix.
33.
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God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men. --Milton.
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Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. --Tennyson.
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Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a
residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other
building.
Dwelling place, place of residence.
[1913 Webster]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[aum]ljas to dwell, Dan. dv[ae]le to linger, and to E.
dull. See Dull, and cf. Dwale.]
1. To delay; to linger. [Obs.]
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2. To abide; to remain; to continue.
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I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. --Shak.
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Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.
--Wordsworth.
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3. To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live
in a place; to reside.
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The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have
possessions. --Peacham.
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The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the
hall where the lord of the domain resides. --C. J.
Smith.
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To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on.
"My hopes in heaven to dwell." --Shak.
To dwell on or To dwell 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.
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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.
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Dwelling house
(gcide) | Dwelling \Dwell"ing\, n.
Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode;
domicile.
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Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. --Jer. xlix.
33.
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God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men. --Milton.
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Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. --Tennyson.
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Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a
residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other
building.
Dwelling place, place of residence.
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Dwelling place
(gcide) | Dwelling \Dwell"ing\, n.
Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode;
domicile.
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Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. --Jer. xlix.
33.
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God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men. --Milton.
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Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. --Tennyson.
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Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a
residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other
building.
Dwelling place, place of residence.
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Embowelling
(gcide) | Embowel \Em*bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboweledor
Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling.]
1. To disembowel.
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The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam.
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The boar . . . makes his trough
In your emboweled bosoms. --Shak.
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Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
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2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
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Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser.
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Heartswelling
(gcide) | Heartswelling \Heart"swell`ing\ (h[aum]rt"sw[e^]l`[i^]ng), a.
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate."
--Spenser.
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High-swelling
(gcide) | High-swelling \High"-swell`ing\, a.
Inflated; boastful.
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Home-dwelling
(gcide) | Home-dwelling \Home"-dwell`ing\, a.
Keeping at home.
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Indwelling
(gcide) | Indwelling \In"dwell`ing\, n.
Residence within, as in the heart.
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The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers.
--South.
[1913 Webster]Indwell \In"dwell`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Indwelt; p. pr.
& vb. n. Indwelling.]
To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.
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The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a
constantly indwelt form. --Milman.
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Jewelling
(gcide) | Jewel \Jew"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jeweled, or Jewelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Jeweling, or Jewelling.]
To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a
sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels; to
bejewel.
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The long gray tufts . . . are jeweled thick with dew.
--M. Arnold.
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Lacustrine dwellings
(gcide) | Lacustral \La*cus"tral\, Lacustrine \La*cus"trine\, a. [L. lacus
lake: cf. F. lacustral, lacustre.]
Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in
them; as, lacustrine flowers.
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Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been
accumulated in fresh-water areas.
Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.
[1913 Webster]Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea,
Icel. l["o]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf.
Loch, Lough.]
A large body of water contained in a depression of the
earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or
less extended area.
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Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt
lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually
no outlet to the ocean.
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Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or
races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their
dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance
from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of
Switzerland.
Lake dwellings (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake,
sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept
in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of
prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many
savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See
Crannog.
Lake fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous
flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble
mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in
lakes.
Lake herring (Zool.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii).
Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally
applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey,
Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country
of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed
with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and
lakists.
Lake sturgeon (Zool.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus),
of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi River. It is used as food.
Lake trout (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and
salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United
States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes,
and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and
Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({Salvelinus
fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is
also called lake trout. See Namaycush.
Lake whitefish. (Zool.) See Whitefish.
Lake whiting (Zool.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus
Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United
States and Canada. It is more slender than the common
whitefish.
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lacustrine dwellings
(gcide) | Lacustral \La*cus"tral\, Lacustrine \La*cus"trine\, a. [L. lacus
lake: cf. F. lacustral, lacustre.]
Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in
them; as, lacustrine flowers.
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Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been
accumulated in fresh-water areas.
Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.
[1913 Webster]Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea,
Icel. l["o]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf.
Loch, Lough.]
A large body of water contained in a depression of the
earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or
less extended area.
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Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt
lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually
no outlet to the ocean.
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Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or
races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their
dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance
from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of
Switzerland.
Lake dwellings (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake,
sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept
in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of
prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many
savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See
Crannog.
Lake fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous
flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble
mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in
lakes.
Lake herring (Zool.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii).
Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally
applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey,
Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country
of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed
with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and
lakists.
Lake sturgeon (Zool.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus),
of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi River. It is used as food.
Lake trout (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and
salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United
States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes,
and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and
Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({Salvelinus
fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is
also called lake trout. See Namaycush.
Lake whitefish. (Zool.) See Whitefish.
Lake whiting (Zool.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus
Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United
States and Canada. It is more slender than the common
whitefish.
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Lake dwellings
(gcide) | Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea,
Icel. l["o]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf.
Loch, Lough.]
A large body of water contained in a depression of the
earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or
less extended area.
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Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt
lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually
no outlet to the ocean.
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Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or
races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their
dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance
from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of
Switzerland.
Lake dwellings (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake,
sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept
in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of
prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many
savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See
Crannog.
Lake fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous
flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble
mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in
lakes.
Lake herring (Zool.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii).
Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally
applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey,
Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country
of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed
with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and
lakists.
Lake sturgeon (Zool.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus),
of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi River. It is used as food.
Lake trout (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and
salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United
States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes,
and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and
Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({Salvelinus
fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is
also called lake trout. See Namaycush.
Lake whitefish. (Zool.) See Whitefish.
Lake whiting (Zool.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus
Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United
States and Canada. It is more slender than the common
whitefish.
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Pile dwelling
(gcide) | Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[imac]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin;
but cf. also L. pila pillar.]
1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into
the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor
where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a
pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam,
etc.
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Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.
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2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or
subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed
palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on
piles.
Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of
piles.
Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving
down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with
suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or
steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy
mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.
Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake.
Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in
sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling.
Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic.
Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by
rotation aided by pressure.
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Rowelling
(gcide) | Rowel \Row"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweledor Rowelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling.] (Far.)
To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the
flesh of a horse). --Mortimer.
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Swelling
(gcide) | Swell \Swell\, v. i. [imp. Swelled; p. p. Swelled or
Swollen; p. pr. & vb. n. Swelling.] [AS. swellan; akin to
D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella,
Sw. sv[aum]lla.]
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface
or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of
the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a
bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
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2. To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase
in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its
banks; sounds swell or diminish.
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3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as,
in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
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4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
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You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do
at scarlet. --Sir W.
Scott.
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5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
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6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling
words; a swelling style.
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7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the
middle.
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8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
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Your equal mind yet swells not into state. --Dryden.
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9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
"Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" --Shak.
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10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added,
swell to a great amount.
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11. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to
strut; to look big.
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Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Swelling \Swell"ing\, n.
1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers
in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
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Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea.
--Coleridge.
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2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially (Med.), an
unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous
swelling.
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The superficies of such plates are not even, but
have many cavities and swellings. --Sir I.
Newton.
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towelling
(gcide) | Toweling \Tow"el*ing\, n.
Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces
to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel
lengths with borders, etc. [Written also towelling.]
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Unbowelling
(gcide) | Unbowel \Un*bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Unboweledor
Unbowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Unboweling or Unbowelling.]
[1st pref. un- + bowel.]
To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. --Dr. H. More.
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Wellington boot
(gcide) | Wellington boot \Wel"ling*ton boot\ [After the Duke of
Wellington.]
A riding boot for men, the front of which came above the
knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers.
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Wellingtonia
(gcide) | Wellingtonia \Wel`ling*to"ni*a\, n. [NL. So named after the Duke
of Wellington.] (Bot.)
A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of
California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.
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Wellingtons
(gcide) | Wellingtons \Wel"ling*tons\, n. pl. [After the Duke of
Wellington.]
A kind of long boots for men.
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White swelling
(gcide) | White \White\ (hw[imac]t), a. [Compar. Whiter
(hw[imac]t"[~e]r); superl. Whitest.] [OE. whit, AS.
hw[imac]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[imac]t, D. wit, G.
weiss, OHG. w[imac]z, hw[imac]z, Icel. hv[imac]tr, Sw. hvit,
Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright,
Russ. sviet' light, Skr. [,c]v[=e]ta white, [,c]vit to be
bright. [root]42. Cf. Wheat, Whitsunday.]
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1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a
white skin. "Pearls white." --Chaucer.
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White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
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2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
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Or whispering with white lips, "The foe!
They come! they come!" --Byron.
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3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
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White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
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No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
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4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
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Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this. --Shak.
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5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
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On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
one of the white days of his life. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
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Come forth, my white spouse. --Chaucer.
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I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
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Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
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White alder. (Bot.) See Sweet pepper bush, under
Pepper.
White ant (Zool.), any one of numerous species of social
pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Termes. These
insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
large and complex communities consisting of numerous
asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
(or fertile females) often having the body enormously
distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
winged males, together with the larvae and pupae of each
kind in various stages of development. Many of the species
construct large and complicated nests, sometimes in the
form of domelike structures rising several feet above the
ground and connected with extensive subterranean galleries
and chambers. In their social habits they closely resemble
the true ants. They feed upon animal and vegetable
substances of various kinds, including timber, and are
often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
White arsenic (Chem.), arsenious oxide, As2O3, a
substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
deadly poison.
White bass (Zool.), a fresh-water North American bass
(Roccus chrysops) found in the Great Likes.
White bear (Zool.), the polar bear. See under Polar.
White blood cell. (Physiol.) See Leucocyte.
White brand (Zool.), the snow goose.
White brass, a white alloy of copper; white copper.
White campion. (Bot.)
(a) A kind of catchfly (Silene stellata) with white
flowers.
(b) A white-flowered Lychnis (Lychnis vespertina).
White canon (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.
White caps, the members of a secret organization in various
of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
in white. Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux
Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated
with the Klan, and their victims were often not black.
White cedar (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
(Thuja occidentalis), also the related {Cupressus
thyoides}, or Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea, a slender
evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
given to the Libocedrus decurrens, the timber of which
is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
--Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
lofty tree (Icica altissima syn. Bursera altissima)
whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as
it is not attacked by insect.
White cell. (Physiol.) See Leucocyte.
White cell-blood (Med.), leucocythaemia.
White clover (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
under Clover.
White copper, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
silver}, under German.
White copperas (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
coquimbite.
White coral (Zool.), an ornamental branched coral
(Amphihelia oculata) native of the Mediterranean.
White corpuscle. (Physiol.) See Leucocyte.
White cricket (Zool.), the tree cricket.
White crop, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
White currant (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
having white berries.
White daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.
White damp, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
mines. --Raymond.
White elephant (Zool.),
(a) a whitish, or albino, variety of the Asiatic elephant.
(b) see white elephant in the vocabulary.
White elm (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
wheels, and for other purposes.
White ensign. See Saint George's ensign, under Saint.
White feather, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
the white feather}, under Feather, n.
White fir (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
of the Pacific States, as Abies grandis, and {Abies
concolor}.
White flesher (Zool.), the ruffed grouse. See under
Ruffed. [Canada]
White frost. See Hoarfrost.
White game (Zool.), the white ptarmigan.
White garnet (Min.), leucite.
White grass (Bot.), an American grass (Leersia Virginica)
with greenish-white paleae.
White grouse. (Zool.)
(a) The white ptarmigan.
(b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
White grub (Zool.), the larva of the June bug and other
allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
other plants, and often do much damage.
White hake (Zool.), the squirrel hake. See under
Squirrel.
White hawk, or White kite (Zool.), the hen harrier.
White heat, the temperature at which bodies become
incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
they emit.
White hellebore (Bot.), a plant of the genus Veratrum
(Veratrum album) See Hellebore, 2.
White herring, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
White hoolet (Zool.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
White horses (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
The White House. See under House.
White ibis (Zool.), an American ibis (Guara alba) having
the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings,
which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the
Southern United States. Called also Spanish curlew.
White iron.
(a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
(b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
proportion of combined carbon.
White iron pyrites (Min.), marcasite.
White land, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
White lark (Zool.), the snow bunting.
White lead.
(a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
other purposes; ceruse.
(b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
White leather, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
salt.
White leg (Med.), milk leg. See under Milk.
White lettuce (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
Rattlesnake.
White lie. See under Lie.
White light.
(a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
same proportion as in the light coming directly from
the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
through a prism. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
(b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
illumination for signals, etc.
White lime, a solution or preparation of lime for
whitewashing; whitewash.
White line (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
on a printed page; a blank line.
White meat.
(a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
(b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
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Driving their cattle continually with them, and
feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
--Spenser.
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White merganser (Zool.), the smew.
White metal.
(a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
etc.
(b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
certain stage in copper smelting.
White miller. (Zool.)
(a) The common clothes moth.
(b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
spots; -- called also ermine moth, and {virgin
moth}. See Woolly bear, under Woolly.
White money, silver money.
White mouse (Zool.), the albino variety of the common
mouse.
White mullet (Zool.), a silvery mullet (Mugil curema)
ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
called also blue-back mullet, and liza.
White nun (Zool.), the smew; -- so called from the white
crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
head, which give the appearance of a hood.
White oak. (Bot.) See under Oak.
White owl. (Zool.)
(a) The snowy owl.
(b) The barn owl.
White partridge (Zool.), the white ptarmigan.
White perch. (Zool.)
(a) A North American fresh-water bass (Morone Americana)
valued as a food fish.
(b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
(c) Any California surf fish.
White pine. (Bot.) See the Note under Pine.
White poplar (Bot.), a European tree (Populus alba) often
cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
White poppy (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See Poppy.
White powder, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
[Obs.]
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White precipitate. (Old Chem.) See under Precipitate.
White rabbit. (Zool.)
(a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
(b) An albino rabbit.
White rent,
(a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
opposed to black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3.
(b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
White rhinoceros. (Zool.)
(a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
Indicus}). See Rhinoceros.
(b) The umhofo.
White ribbon, the distinctive badge of certain
organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
White rope (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
White rot. (Bot.)
(a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
called rot in sheep.
(b) A disease of grapes. See White rot, under Rot.
White sage (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
fat}.
White salmon (Zool.), the silver salmon.
White salt, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
White scale (Zool.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus Nerii)
injurious to the orange tree. See Orange scale, under
Orange.
White shark (Zool.), a species of man-eating shark. See
under Shark.
White softening. (Med.) See Softening of the brain, under
Softening.
White spruce. (Bot.) See Spruce, n., 1.
White squall (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
the surface of the sea.
White staff, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
England. --Macaulay.
White stork (Zool.), the common European stork.
White sturgeon. (Zool.) See Shovelnose
(d) .
White sucker. (Zool.)
(a) The common sucker.
(b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum).
White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
White tombac. See Tombac.
White trout (Zool.), the white weakfish, or silver
squeteague (Cynoscion nothus), of the Southern United
States.
White vitriol (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
vitriol}, under Vitriol.
White wagtail (Zool.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
White wax, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
White whale (Zool.), the beluga.
White widgeon (Zool.), the smew.
White wine. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
Burgundy. "White wine of Lepe." --Chaucer.
White witch, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
White wolf. (Zool.)
(a) A light-colored wolf (Canis laniger) native of
Thibet; -- called also chanco, golden wolf, and
Thibetan wolf.
(b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
White wren (Zool.), the willow warbler; -- so called from
the color of the under parts.
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beef wellington
(wn) | beef Wellington
n 1: rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in
puff pastry [syn: beef Wellington, {filet de boeuf en
croute}] |
bottom-dwelling
(wn) | bottom-dwelling
adj 1: of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the
bottom of a body of water |
cliff dwelling
(wn) | cliff dwelling
n 1: a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the
sides of a cliff; "the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the
southwestern United States" |
duke of wellington
(wn) | Duke of Wellington
n 1: British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at
Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)
[syn: Wellington, Duke of Wellington, {First Duke of
Wellington}, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke] |
dwelling
(wn) | dwelling
n 1: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house] |
dwelling house
(wn) | dwelling house
n 1: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house] |
first duke of wellington
(wn) | First Duke of Wellington
n 1: British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at
Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)
[syn: Wellington, Duke of Wellington, {First Duke of
Wellington}, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke] |
indwelling
(wn) | indwelling
adj 1: existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or
force or principle; "an indwelling divinity"; "an
indwelling goodness" |
lake dwelling
(wn) | lake dwelling
n 1: dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in
prehistoric villages [syn: lake dwelling, {pile
dwelling}] |
pile dwelling
(wn) | pile dwelling
n 1: dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in
prehistoric villages [syn: lake dwelling, {pile
dwelling}] |
sequoia wellingtonia
(wn) | Sequoia Wellingtonia
n 1: extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western
foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living
organism [syn: giant sequoia, big tree, {Sierra
redwood}, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sequoia gigantea,
Sequoia Wellingtonia] |
single dwelling
(wn) | single dwelling
n 1: a house that stands alone [syn: detached house, {single
dwelling}] |
swelling
(wn) | swelling
n 1: an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn:
swelling, puffiness, lump]
2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious
bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky
prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed";
"the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge,
bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness,
jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion,
extrusion, excrescence]
3: the increase in volume of certain substances when they are
heated (often accompanied by release of water) [syn:
intumescence, intumescency, swelling] |
towelling
(wn) | towelling
n 1: any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make
towels [syn: toweling, towelling] |
wellington
(wn) | Wellington
n 1: British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at
Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)
[syn: Wellington, Duke of Wellington, {First Duke of
Wellington}, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke]
2: the capital of New Zealand [syn: Wellington, {capital of
New Zealand}]
3: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian
boot}, hessian, jackboot, Wellington, {Wellington
boot}] |
wellington boot
(wn) | Wellington boot
n 1: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian
boot}, hessian, jackboot, Wellington, {Wellington
boot}] |
DWELLING
(bouvier) | DWELLING: HOUSE. A building inhabited by man. A mansion. (q.v.)
2. A part of a house is, in one sense, a dwelling house; for example,
where two or more persons rent of the owner different parts of a house, so
as to have among them the whole house, and the owner does not reserve or
occupy any part, the separate portion of each will, in cases of burglary, be
considered the dwelling house of each. 1 Mood. Cr. bas. 23.
3. At common law, in cases of burglary, under the term dwelling house
are included the out-houses within the curtilage or common fence with the
dwelling house. 3 Inst. 64; 4 Bl. Com. 225; and vide Russ & Ry. Cr. Cas.
170; Id. 186; 16 Mass. 105; 16 John. 203; 18 John. 115; 4 Call, 109; 1
Moody, Cr. Cas. 274; Burglary; Door; House; Jail; Mansion.
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