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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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80 words match “TARE”

GAURE v.
To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
GLARE v. 2 definitions
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.
GLOAR v.
To squint; to stare. [Obs.]
GLOUT v.
To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at. [Obs.] Wright.
GLOWER v.
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.
GOGGLE v.
To roll the eyes; to stare. And wink and goggle like an owl. Hudibras.
GROSS a.
Abbott. -- Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat, or net, weight.
IMBATHE v.
To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
KIKE v.
To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LAETERE SUNDAY n.
. The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Lætare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.
LANCEWOOD n.
ry bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).
LITMUS n.
A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.
MUTTER v.
l. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself. Dryden.
MUZZY a.
Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.
NECTARINE a.
Nectareous. [R.] Milton.
NECTAROUS a.
Nectareous. Milton.
OUTGAZE v.
To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.
OUTLOOK v.
To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak.
PARABLE n.
a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.
PERPETUAL a.
everlasting; continuous. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. Milton. Circle of perpetual apparition, or occultation. See under Circle. -- Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. -- Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in w…
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