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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,627 words match “LEY”

Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish. South.

See Galley, n., 4.

Destitute of a garden. Shelley.

Destitute of a garland. Shelley.

ed, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Test…

GEMELLIPA-ROUS a.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel. [Obs.] Bailey.

Capable of being generated or produced. Bentley.

er of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.

the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series.…

Belonging to earth; terrestrial. [Obs.] Bailey.

Bearing; carrying. [Obs.] Bailey.

To germinate. [R.] J. Morley.

which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. [Obs.] Bailey.

A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

GIN n. 2 definitions

A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

ce, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.