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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.

11,071 words match “MENT”

icle of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

Clothing; dress.

GARNISHMENT n. 4 definitions

Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.

View. [Obs.] Spenser.

GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT n.

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

Act of making gestures; gesturing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

GOVERNMENT n. 7 definitions

dministration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

GOVERNMENTAL a.

Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.] Spenser.

HABILIMENT n. 2 definitions

A garment; an article of clothing. Camden.

HABILIMENTED a.

Clothed. Taylor (1630).

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.

Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.] Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.

HATCHMENT n. 2 definitions

f the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. Shak.

HEREDITAMENT n.

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT n.

ed condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments…

he hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.

IMBITTERMENT n.

The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.