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Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.

To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house. Shak.

Stripped of a roof, or similar covering. Broken carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, all indicated the movements. Sir W. Scott.

Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.

Valor tried by war.

Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.

The act or process of making waterproof.

Proof against rough weather.

A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.

Acceptance. [R.] Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning.

The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the ru…

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

Corroborative or explanatory proof.

remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

e main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

o as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

ed from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.