Search the Dictionary

anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. Halliwell.

flect, to deliberate. [Obs.] Chaucer. Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser.

e defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell.

lor of arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

stic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.

In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

The act of swelling; swelling.

A child. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Has he not well provided for the bairn ! Beau. & Fl.

s an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them. I am very well satisfied that it is not in my power to balance accounts with my Maker. Addison.

Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

Swelled out like a balloon.

Of or pertaining to a bath. Howell.

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells.

lse front of hair similarly worn. His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells.

ise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." Holland.