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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



691 words match “RIDE”

GLOW v.
ger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden. Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Pope.
GOPHER n.
family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.
GRANGE n.
e, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes. And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes wide. Chaucer. Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.
GREATNESS n.
Pride; haughtiness. [Obs.]It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
GREEN a. 2 definitions
(Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. -- Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. -- Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. -- Green sickness…
GRIZELIN a.
See Gridelin.
GROOM n.
A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. Dryden. Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.
GROOMSMAN n.
A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.
GRYDE v.
To gride. See Gride. Spenser.
GUIPURE n.
o ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.
GYMNIC; GYMNICAL a.
ymnastic. [Obs.] Have they not swordplayers, and every sort Of gymnic artists, wrestlers, riders, runners Milton.
HALITE n.
Native salt; sodium chloride.
HALOID a.
ng of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. -- n.
HAUGHTY a.
Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. Milton.
HAUTEUR n.
Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
HAWK v.
ke a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies. Dryden. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Shak.
HEADMOLD SHOT; HEADMOULD SHOT n.
An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.
HEADPIECE n.
derstanding; mental faculty. Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains. Prideaux.
HELLEBORE n.
several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white hellebore.
HEMIN n.
c acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.
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