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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



841 words match “DAL”

INFAMOUSLY adv.
In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
INNUENDO n.
uation. Mercury . . . owns it a marriage by an innuendo. Dryden. Pursue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. Swift.
INSCRIPTION n.
e for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
INSECTICIDE n.
An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
INTEMPERANT a.
[Obs.] Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.
INTERACT v.
To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact. Emerson. Tyndall.
INTERMITTENCE n.
Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.
INTERNODIAL a.
Internodal. [R.]
JOIN v.
To enjoin upon; to command. [Obs. & R.] They join them penance, as they call it. Tyndale.
JUGATA n.
The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.
JUKE v.
cent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.…
JUT n.
A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.
KEEP v.
icitous; to watch. [Obs.] Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us. Tyndale.
KNIGHT n.
In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
KNOT n.
not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.
KNOWLEDGE v.
To acknowledge. [Obs.] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.
KYABOCA WOOD n.
Sandalwood (Santalum album).
LAELAPS n.
United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
LAMA n.
Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. The Grand Lama, or Dalai Lama Etym: [lit., Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. See Lamaism.
LANE n.
field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.
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