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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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5,408 words match “OWN”

TURNDOWN a. 2 definitions
Capable of being turned down; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required.
UNBEKNOWN a.
Not known; unknown. [Colloq.]
UNCROWN v.
To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.
UNDERGOWN n.
A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.
UNDERGROWN a.
Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.
UNGOWN v.
To strip of a gown; to unfrock.
UNGOWNED a. 2 definitions
Stripped of a gown; unfrocked.
UNKNOWN a.
Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. [R.] Camden.
UNOWNED a. 2 definitions
Not owned; having no owner. Milton.
UPSIDOWN adv.
See Upsodown. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.
UPSODOWN adv.
Upside down. [Obs. or Colloq.] Wyclif. In man's sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown. Chaucer.
UPTOWN adv. 2 definitions
To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [Colloq. U. S.]
WELL-KNOWN a.
Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.
WHITY-BROWN a.
Of a color between white and brown. Pegge.
YELLOWNESS n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.
A PRIORI n.
finitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.
A- n.
away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. i…
ABANDON v.
a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.
ABASE v. 2 definitions
To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.
ABASED a.
Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
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