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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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8,885 words match “OUT”

WITHOUT prep. 6 definitions

On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden.

WITHOUT-DOOR a.

Outdoor; exterior. [Obs.] "Her without-door form." Shak.

WITHOUTEN prep.

Without. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WITHOUTFORTH adv.

Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.

Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.

Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing. [Sailors' slang]

YOUTH n. 4 definitions

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton.

YOUTHFUL a. 4 definitions

Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." Dryden.

The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. Cheyne.

Young; youthful. [Obs.] "All my youthly days." Spenser.

Youthful. [Obs.] Pepys.

Young. [Obs.] Spectator.

To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them. Smart.

A n. 2 definitions

s in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

ate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.