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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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568 words match “ERST”

OVERSTRAITLY adv.
Too straitly or strictly. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
OVERSTRAW v.
To overstrew. [Obs.] Shak.
OVERSTREW v.
To strew or scatter over.
OVERSTRICT a.
Excessively strict.
OVERSTRIDE v.
To stride over or beyond.
OVERSTRIKE v.
To strike beyond. [Obs.]
OVERSTROW v.
See Overstrew.
OVERSTUDIOUS a.
Too studious.
PERSTREPEROUS a.
Noisy; obstreperous. [Obs.] Ford.
PERSTRINGE v. 2 definitions
To touch; to graze; to glance on. [Obs.]
QUARTERSTAFF n.
A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
RUDDERSTOCK n.
The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.
SUMMERSTIR v.
To summer-fallow.
SUPERSTITION n. 5 definitions
rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion. And the truth With superstitions and traditions taint. Milton.
SUPERSTITIONIST n.
One addicted to superstition. [Obs.] "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
SUPERSTITIOUS a. 3 definitions
Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
SUPERSTRAIN v.
To overstrain. Bacon.
SUPERSTRATUM n.
A stratum, or layer, above another.
SUPERSTRUCT v.
other structure; to erect upon a foundation. This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue. Dr. H. More.
SUPERSTRUCTION n. 2 definitions
The act of superstructing, or building upon.
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