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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



255 words match “BARROW”

BORDER n.
gin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.
BRUTIFY v.
eless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.
BUCKLE v.
. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.
BUNGLER n.
y profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
BURROW n.
A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
CAPACIFY v.
To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
CELT n.
A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
CIRCULATORIOUS a.
ng from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.
CIRCUMCURSATION n.
The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.
CLANCULAR a.
with secrecy; clandestine; concealed. [Obs.] Not close and clancular, but frank and open. Barrow.
CLATTER n.
Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.
COMMUNICATORY a.
Imparting knowledge or information. Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow.
COMPASSIONABLE a.
Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. [R.] Barrow.
COMPLETORY a.
Serving to fulfill. Completory of ancient presignifications. Barrow.
COMPORT v.
To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.] Barrow.
COMPRISAL n.
g or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.
CONCOURSE n.
eration. [Obs.] The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding. Barrow.
CONSTITUTIVE a.
te or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow.
CONSUBSTANTIALIST n.
One who believes in consubstantiation. Barrow.
CONTENTFUL a.
Full of content. [Obs.] Barrow.
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