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A word that has no accent.

An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

o regard. [Obs.] The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.

A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

to the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

ill not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

e clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

ct with the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary. -- Back step (Mi…

thers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around…

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak.

tar-spangled banner. Banner fish (Zoöl.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (H. Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.