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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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792 words match “AWAY”

STUMP v. 13 definitions

mor bowled, And stumped the wicket. Tennyson. To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]

SUBDUCE; SUBDUCT v. 2 definitions

To withdraw; to take away. Milton.

SUBDUCTION n. 2 definitions

The act of subducting or taking away. Bp. Hall.

To take or carry away; to remove. [R.] E. Hall.

The act of taking or carrying away; removal. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Having power, or tending, to take away. [R.] Harris.

SUBPERIOSTEAL a.

he periosteum. Subperiosteal operation (Surg.), a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.

SUBSCRIBE v. 12 definitions

To sign away; to yield; to surrender. [Obs.] Shak.

To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

SUBTRACTION n. 3 definitions

The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

Foulness; filth. [Obs.] Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue.

SUPPLANT v. 3 definitions

To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. You never will supplant the received ideas of God. Landor.

SWALE v. 3 definitions

To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.

SWAMP n. 7 definitions

nd; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. Farming Encyc. (E.…

SWARF n. 2 definitions

The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]

SWEAL v. 2 definitions

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.

SWEEP v. 25 definitions

as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes. The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Isa. xxviii. 17. I have already swept the stakes. Dryden.

Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.

SWEEPSTAKE n. 2 definitions

A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.