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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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5,375 words match “OLD”

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

The unfolding or dénouement. [R.] De Quincey.

spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

ANCHOR n. 5 definitions

is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

ANCHORAGE n. 2 definitions

A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

ANCIENT a. 3 definitions

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gilda…

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak.

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

ANGEL n. 2 definitions

ssengers. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel. Eng. Cyc.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

ANGLO-SAXON n. 2 definitions

Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.

ANGLO-SAXONISM n.

of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

Old-womanish; imbecile. "Anile ideas." Walpole.

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.

ries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8

ting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

A year old; in Yearly growths.