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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,509 words match “ALE”

Hexavalent. [R.]

SHALE n. 3 definitions

A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.

Same as Cingalese.

and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. [Written also skilligolee, skillygalee, etc.]

SPALE n. 2 definitions

A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. It is found in th…

Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).

SQUEALER n. 4 definitions

One who, or that which, squeals.

STALE n. 14 definitions

The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. [Written also steal, stele, etc.] But seeling the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen. Chapman.

STALELY adv. 2 definitions

In a state stale manner.

STALEMATE v. 2 definitions

To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

The quality or state of being stale.

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

STEALER n. 2 definitions

One who steals; a thief.

The stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]

SUBBRACHIALES n.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

A subordinate dialect.

SWALE n. 3 definitions

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]