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lampstand
(mass) | lampstand
- svietnik |
sweepstake
(mass) | sweepstake
- lotéria |
upstairs
(mass) | upstairs
- nahore |
upstart
(mass) | upstart
- nedávny |
Bishop-stool
(gcide) | Bishop-stool \Bish"op-stool`\, n.
A bishop's seat or see.
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boisterous knockabout slapstick
(gcide) | humourous \humourous\ adj.
same as humorous; causing amusement or laughter. [Narrower
terms: {bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty ;
{boisterous, knockabout, slapstick ; {buffoonish, clownish,
zany}; {comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible ; {droll,
waggish ; {dry, ironic, ironical, pawky, wry ; {farcical,
ludicrous, ridiculous ; {Gilbertian ; {hilarious, uproarious
; jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking; {merry,
mirthful}; {seriocomic, seriocomical ; {tragicomic,
tragicomical ; killing, sidesplitting] Also See:
pleasing.
Syn: humorous.
[WordNet 1.5] |
campstool
(gcide) | campstool \camp"stool`\ n.
a folding stool.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Capstan
(gcide) | Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante,
cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold
(see Capacious); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat
+ stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[`e]vre she-goat,
also a machine for raising heavy weights.]
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright
spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars
or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for
moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by
traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is
operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking
around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed
in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.]
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Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the
capstan is worked; a handspike..
To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will
catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the
capstan from turning back.
To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the
bars in the sockets.
To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or
cable wound around it.
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Capstan bar
(gcide) | Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante,
cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold
(see Capacious); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat
+ stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[`e]vre she-goat,
also a machine for raising heavy weights.]
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright
spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars
or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for
moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by
traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is
operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking
around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed
in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.]
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Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the
capstan is worked; a handspike..
To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will
catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the
capstan from turning back.
To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the
bars in the sockets.
To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or
cable wound around it.
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Capstern
(gcide) | Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante,
cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold
(see Capacious); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat
+ stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[`e]vre she-goat,
also a machine for raising heavy weights.]
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright
spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars
or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for
moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by
traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is
operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking
around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed
in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.]
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Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the
capstan is worked; a handspike..
To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will
catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the
capstan from turning back.
To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the
bars in the sockets.
To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or
cable wound around it.
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Capstone
(gcide) | Capstone \Cap"stone`\, n. (Paleon.)
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from
its supposed resemblance to a cap.
[1913 Webster] Capsular |
Chepster
(gcide) | Chepster \Chep"ster\ (ch[e^]p"st[~e]r), n. (Zool.)
The European starling. [Local, Eng.]
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chopstick
(gcide) | chopsticks \chop"sticks`\ (ch[o^]p"st[i^]ks`), n. chopstick
(ch[o^]p"st[i^]k`),
1. a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic,
etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift
food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used
around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in
restaurants serving oriental food.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] Chop suey |
chopsticks
(gcide) | chopsticks \chop"sticks`\ (ch[o^]p"st[i^]ks`), n. chopstick
(ch[o^]p"st[i^]k`),
1. a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic,
etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift
food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used
around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in
restaurants serving oriental food.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] Chop suey |
Coupstick
(gcide) | Coupstick \Coup"stick`\ (k[=oo]"st[i^]k`), n. [Coup + stick.]
A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making
or counting a coup.
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Dempster
(gcide) | Dempster \Demp"ster\ (?; 215), Demster \Dem"ster\, n. [See
Deemster.]
1. A deemster.
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2. (O. Scots Law) An officer whose duty it was to announce
the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.
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dipstick
(gcide) | dipstick \dipstick\ n.
a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid
level; as, to check the oil level in a car with a dipstick.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Dripstone
(gcide) | Dripstone \Drip"stone`\, n. (Arch.)
A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
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Epstein-Barr virus
(gcide) | Herpesvirus \Her"pes*vir`us\, n. (Med.)
any of several dozen DNA-containing virus of the family
Herpetoviridae, including among them such
human-disease-causing agents as Herpes simplex virus
causing oral and genital herpes, varicella-zoster virus
(Herpes zoster virus) causing shingles and chickenpox
(varicella), Epstein-Barr virus (EB virus) causing
infectious mononucleosis, and Cytomegalovirus.
[PJC] |
hipster
(gcide) | hipster \hip"ster\, n. [from Hip a. + -ster.]
A person who is hip[2], a..
Syn: hepcat[2].
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hoopster
(gcide) | hoopster \hoop"ster\ n.
A basketball player. [slang]
[PJC] hoosegow |
Jeer capstan
(gcide) | Jeer \Jeer\, n. [Cf. Gear.] (Naut.)
(a) A gear; a tackle.
(b) pl. An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting
or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
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Jeer capstan (Naut.), an extra capstan usually placed
between the foremast and mainmast.
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Jump-start
(gcide) | jumpstart \jump"start`\, Jump-start \Jump"-start`\, v. t.
1. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary
connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle
or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure
used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power
to start the vehicle normally.
Note: Cables used to transmit electrical current from one
vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are
called jumper cables.
[PJC]
2. To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the
assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an
activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by
application of a stimulus not normally used in the
activity. [Figurative]
[PJC]Jump-start \Jump"-start`\, n.
The action or event of jump-starting. For motor vehicles, the
jump-starting of an engine is also called a jump.
[PJC] Jump suit |
jumpstart
(gcide) | jumpstart \jump"start`\, Jump-start \Jump"-start`\, v. t.
1. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary
connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle
or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure
used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power
to start the vehicle normally.
Note: Cables used to transmit electrical current from one
vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are
called jumper cables.
[PJC]
2. To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the
assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an
activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by
application of a stimulus not normally used in the
activity. [Figurative]
[PJC]Jump-start \Jump"-start`\, n.
The action or event of jump-starting. For motor vehicles, the
jump-starting of an engine is also called a jump.
[PJC] Jump suit |
Jump-start
(gcide) | jumpstart \jump"start`\, Jump-start \Jump"-start`\, v. t.
1. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary
connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle
or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure
used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power
to start the vehicle normally.
Note: Cables used to transmit electrical current from one
vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are
called jumper cables.
[PJC]
2. To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the
assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an
activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by
application of a stimulus not normally used in the
activity. [Figurative]
[PJC]Jump-start \Jump"-start`\, n.
The action or event of jump-starting. For motor vehicles, the
jump-starting of an engine is also called a jump.
[PJC] Jump suit |
Lapstone
(gcide) | Lapstone \Lap"stone`\, n.
A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.
[1913 Webster] lap-streaked
Lapstrake
Lapstreak |
Lapstrake
(gcide) | Lapstreak \Lap"streak`\, Lapstrake \Lap"strake`\, lap-streaked
\lap-streaked\, lap-straked \lap-straked\a.
Made with boards whose edges lap one over another;
clinker-built; -- said of boats. Contrasted with
carvel-built.
Syn: lap-jointed, overlapping.
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lap-straked
(gcide) | Lapstreak \Lap"streak`\, Lapstrake \Lap"strake`\, lap-streaked
\lap-streaked\, lap-straked \lap-straked\a.
Made with boards whose edges lap one over another;
clinker-built; -- said of boats. Contrasted with
carvel-built.
Syn: lap-jointed, overlapping.
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Lapstreak
(gcide) | Lapstreak \Lap"streak`\, Lapstrake \Lap"strake`\, lap-streaked
\lap-streaked\, lap-straked \lap-straked\a.
Made with boards whose edges lap one over another;
clinker-built; -- said of boats. Contrasted with
carvel-built.
Syn: lap-jointed, overlapping.
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lap-streaked
(gcide) | Lapstreak \Lap"streak`\, Lapstrake \Lap"strake`\, lap-streaked
\lap-streaked\, lap-straked \lap-straked\a.
Made with boards whose edges lap one over another;
clinker-built; -- said of boats. Contrasted with
carvel-built.
Syn: lap-jointed, overlapping.
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lipstick
(gcide) | makeup \make"up`\, make-up \make"-up`\(m[=a]k"[u^]p`), n.
1.
1. The way in which the parts of anything are put together.
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The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological
in their mental make-up. --L. F. Ward.
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2. The constituent parts of anything; as, the makeup of the
new congress was predominantly conservative.
[PJC]
3. Cosmetics applied to the face, such as lipstick, {facial
power}, or eye shadow.
[PJC]
4. The aggregate of cosmetics and costume worn by an actor.
[PJC]
5. The effect or appearance of the wearing of makeup (in
senses 3 or 4); often, the way in which an actor is
dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character; as,
her makeup was very realistic.
[PJC]
6. An action that is taken to fulfill a requirement not
accomplished at the expected time, such as a make-up
examination; as, the student took his make-up on Saturday.
[PJC]
7. (Printing) The appearance of a page of a publication,
specifically the type style of the text and the spatial
arrangement of the text, illustrations, advertising
material etc., on the page.
[PJC]
8. (Printing) The art or process of arranging the portions of
a printed publication on the pages for esthetic reasons or
for optimal effect on the reader.
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Mopstick
(gcide) | Mopstick \Mop"stick`\, n.
The long handle of a mop.
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quipster
(gcide) | quipster \quip"ster\, n.
A person who frequently makes quips.
[PJC] |
Sempster
(gcide) | Sempster \Semp"ster\, n.
A seamster. [Obs.]
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Sempstress
(gcide) | Sempstress \Semp"stress\, n.
A seamstress.
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Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts.
--Swift.
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Sempstressy
(gcide) | Sempstressy \Semp"stress*y\, n.
Seamstressy.
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Shepster
(gcide) | Shepster \Shep"ster\, n.
A seamstress. [Obs.] --Caxton.
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skopster
(gcide) | Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack,
skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
[1913 Webster]Skopster \Skop"ster\ (sk[o^]p"st[~e]r), n.
The saury. [Prov. Eng.]
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Skopster
(gcide) | Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack,
skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
[1913 Webster]Skopster \Skop"ster\ (sk[o^]p"st[~e]r), n.
The saury. [Prov. Eng.]
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slipstick
(gcide) | Slide rule \Slide" rule`\, n.
a thin, flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer
piece and a movable middle piece. Both pieces are graduated
in such a way (as, by a logarithmic scale) that
multiplication, division, and other mathematical functions of
an input variable may be rapidly determined by movement of
the middle pieces to a location on one scale corresponding to
the input value, and reading off the result on another scale.
A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the
scales. This device has been largely superseded by the
electronic calculator, which has a greater precision than the
slide rule. Also called colloquially slipstick.
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Slipstring
(gcide) | Slipstring \Slip"string`\, n.
One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal. [Obs.]
--Cotgrave.
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Soapstone
(gcide) | Soapstone \Soap"stone`\, n.
See Steatite, and Talc.
[1913 Webster]Steatite \Ste"a*tite\ (-t[imac]t), n. [Gr. ste`ar, ste`atos,
fat, tallow: cf. F. st['e]atite.] (Min.)
A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color.
It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and
for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone,
and soapstone.
[1913 Webster]Talc \Talc\ (t[a^]lk), n. [F. talc; cf. Sp. & It. talco, LL.
talcus; all fr. Ar. talq.] (Min.)
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is
hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is
a compact granular variety.
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Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly
compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; --
called also talc slate.
[1913 Webster] Talcose |
soapstone
(gcide) | Soapstone \Soap"stone`\, n.
See Steatite, and Talc.
[1913 Webster]Steatite \Ste"a*tite\ (-t[imac]t), n. [Gr. ste`ar, ste`atos,
fat, tallow: cf. F. st['e]atite.] (Min.)
A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color.
It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and
for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone,
and soapstone.
[1913 Webster]Talc \Talc\ (t[a^]lk), n. [F. talc; cf. Sp. & It. talco, LL.
talcus; all fr. Ar. talq.] (Min.)
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is
hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is
a compact granular variety.
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Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly
compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; --
called also talc slate.
[1913 Webster] Talcose |
Stepstone
(gcide) | Stepstone \Step"stone`\, n.
A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering
the house.
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Sweepstake
(gcide) | Sweepstake \Sweep"stake`\, n.
1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes. --Heylin.
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2. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.]
--Bp. Hacket.
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Sweepstakes
(gcide) | Sweepstakes \Sweep"stakes`\, n.
1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
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2. sing. or pl. The whole money or other things staked at a
horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all
of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several,
as may be previously agreed.
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3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
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Swoopstake
(gcide) | Swoopstake \Swoop"stake`\, n.
See Sweepstake. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Swoopstake \Swoop"stake`\, adv.
Altogether; indiscriminately. [R.] --Shak.
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Tapster
(gcide) | Tapster \Tap"ster\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppestre a female tapster. See
Tap a plug, pipe, and -ster.]
One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
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Tipstaff
(gcide) | Tipstaff \Tip"staff`\, n.; pl. Tipstaff.
1. A staff tipped with metal. --Bacon.
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2. An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a
constable. --Macaulay.
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Tipster
(gcide) | Tipster \Tip"ster\, n. [Tip a hint + -ster.]
One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or
private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon
the probable outcome of events, as horse races.
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Tipstock
(gcide) | Tipstock \Tip"stock`\, n.
The detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying
beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the
left hand.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
To come up the capstan
(gcide) | Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.
To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.
To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.
To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.
To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.
To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -
To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.
To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.
To come away, to part or depart.
To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.
To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.
To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.
To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.
To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.
To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]
To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.
To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.
To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]
To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.
To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.
To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.
To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.
To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.
To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.
To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.
To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.
To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.
To come over to, to join.
To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]
To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.
To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.
To come to blows. See under Blow.
To come to grief. See under Grief.
To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.
To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.
To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.
To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]
To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]
To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.
To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.
To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.
To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.
To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.
To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.
To come up to, to rise to; to equal.
To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.
To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To pawl the capstan
(gcide) | Pawl \Pawl\, v. t.
To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
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To pawl the capstan. See under Capstan.
[1913 Webster]Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante,
cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold
(see Capacious); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat
+ stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[`e]vre she-goat,
also a machine for raising heavy weights.]
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright
spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars
or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for
moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by
traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is
operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking
around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed
in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.]
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Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the
capstan is worked; a handspike..
To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will
catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the
capstan from turning back.
To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the
bars in the sockets.
To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or
cable wound around it.
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To rig the capstan
(gcide) | Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante,
cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold
(see Capacious); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat
+ stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[`e]vre she-goat,
also a machine for raising heavy weights.]
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright
spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars
or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for
moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by
traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is
operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking
around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed
in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.]
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Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the
capstan is worked; a handspike..
To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will
catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the
capstan from turning back.
To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the
bars in the sockets.
To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or
cable wound around it.
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To surge the capstan
(gcide) | Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante,
cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr.
cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold
(see Capacious); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat
+ stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[`e]vre she-goat,
also a machine for raising heavy weights.]
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright
spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars
or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for
moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by
traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is
operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking
around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed
in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.]
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Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the
capstan is worked; a handspike..
To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will
catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the
capstan from turning back.
To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the
bars in the sockets.
To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or
cable wound around it.
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Topstone
(gcide) | Topstone \Top"stone`\, n.
A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.
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Trapstick
(gcide) | Trapstick \Trap"stick`\, n.
A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a
slender leg. --Addison.
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Undertapster
(gcide) | Undertapster \Un`der*tap"ster\, n.
Assistant to a tapster.
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Upstairs
(gcide) | Upstairs \Up*stairs"\, adv.
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
[1913 Webster]Upstairs \Up"stairs`\, a.
Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
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Upstand
(gcide) | Upstand \Up*stand"\, v. i.
To stand up; to be erected; to rise. --Spenser. Milton.
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At once upstood the monarch, and upstood
The wise Ulysses. --Cowper.
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Upstare
(gcide) | Upstare \Up*stare"\, v. i.
To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or
conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests."
--Spenser.
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Upstart
(gcide) | Upstart \Up*start"\, v. i.
To start or spring up suddenly. --Spenser. Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Upstart \Up"start`\, n.
1. One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth,
power, or honor; a parvenu. --Bacon.
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2. (Bot.) The meadow saffron. --Dr. Prior.
[1913 Webster]Upstart \Up"start`\, a.
Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. "A race of
upstart creatures." --Milton.
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Upstay
(gcide) | Upstay \Up*stay"\, v. t.
To sustain; to support. [Obs.] "His massy spear upstayed."
--Milton.
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Upsterte
(gcide) | Upsterte \Up*stert"e\, obs.
imp. & p. p. of Upstart.
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Upstir
(gcide) | Upstir \Up"stir`\, n.
Insurrection; commotion; disturbance. [Obs.] --Sir J. Cheke.
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Upstream
(gcide) | Upstream \Up*stream"\, adv.
Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
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Upstreet
(gcide) | Upstreet \Up*street"\, adv.
Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.
--G. W. Gable.
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