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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,967 words match “INTER”

REINTERROGATE v.

To interrogate again; to question repeatedly. Cotgrave.

One who reprints.

SELF-INTEREST n.

Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's self.

SELF-INTERESTED a.

Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.

hich files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine. -- Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite. -- Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (s…

SPLINTER v. 5 definitions

To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott.

SPLINTERPROOF a.

Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.

Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

One who squints.

One who, or that which, stints.

A certain old dance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A domestic animal two winters old. [Prov. Eng.]

UNINTERESSED a.

Uninterested; unaffected. [Obs.] Glanvill.

UNINTERESTED a. 2 definitions

Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business.

UNINTERMISSION n.

Want or failure of intermission. [R.] Bp. Parker.

WINTER n. 4 definitions

he sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year. "Of thirty winter he was old." Chaucer. And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold. Shak. Winter lingering chills the lap of May. Goldsmith.

WINTER'S BARK n.

The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, or Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.

WINTER-BEATEN a.

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

WINTER-GROUND v.

To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.