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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



426 words match “ALONG”

TOGETHER adv.
made war upon France together. Together with, in union with; in company or mixture with; along with. Take the bad together with the good. Dryden.
TORUS n.
form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolæ.
TRACK n. 2 definitions
A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel. The bright track of his fiery car. Shak.
TRACTION n.
Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
TRACTRIX n.
ceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
TRAIL v. 3 definitions
To draw or drag, as along the ground. And hung his head, and trailed his legs along. Dryden. They shall not trail me through their streets Like a wild beast. Milton. Long behind he trails his pompous robe. Pope.
TRAIN v. 3 definitions
To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton.
TRALATITIOUS a.
Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington.
TROLL v. 2 definitions
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
TROTTOIR n.
Footpath; pavement; sidewalk. Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs. Froude.
TRUDGE v.
To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily. And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. Dryden.
TRUNDLE v.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.
TUATARA n.
ark olive- green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.
TUBE-NOSED a.
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
TUCK POINTING n.
The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.
TUG v. 2 definitions
To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. Roscommon.
TUNNEL n.
s which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood…
UNBENDING a.
g to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.
UNDERRUN v.
To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
UNDERSAIL v.
To sail alongshore. [Obs.]
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