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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,030 words match “CHIN”

BEARD n. 2 definitions

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.

BEETLE n. 2 definitions

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

BEGGAR'S LICE n.

The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

BELCH v. 2 definitions

t forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame. Milton.

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 24. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rom. x. 10.

pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of ca…

lar ridge or series of ridges. Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.

The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

BEWITCHMENT n. 2 definitions

The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched. Tylor.

he timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.

A slubbing or roving machine.

An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph.

An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see).

BIRD'S NEST; BIRD'S-NEST n.

The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.