Search the Dictionary

A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.

The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.

See Legislatature, below.

See Legislature, below.

The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

isgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. Macaulay.

With loathing.

See Niding.

rom any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to Ant: southing.

Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to Ant: anything and Ant: something. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. Dryden.

One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.

Nihility; nothingness. [R.]

The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.

The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See Legislature.

A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.

from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.

The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape. Moxon.

fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.

Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.…

from Soothe, v.