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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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738 words match “ALLOW”

GREAVES n.
The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]
GULCH v.
To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]
GULF n. 2 definitions
That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] Shak.
GULP v. 2 definitions
To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.
GURGE v.
To swallow up. [Obs.]
GUTTLE v.
To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.
GUZZLE v. 2 definitions
To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.
HALF-READ a.
Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow. Dryden.
HALFER n.
A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).
HALFWAY a.
privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism. -- Halfway house, an inn or place of call midway on a journey.
HALIMAS; HALMAS a.
The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]
HANDICAP n. 2 definitions
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was fi…
HANG v. 2 definitions
To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.
HANGDOG n.
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
HAYBOTE n.
An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.
HEADWAY n.
Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.
HEAVE n.
. Shak. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden.
HEMAUTOGRAPHY n.
The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.
HIRUNDINE a.
Like or pertaining to the swallows.
HIRUNDO n.
A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
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