Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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

2,277 words match “DIE”

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.

DISOBEDIENCE n.

f a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

DISOBEDIENCY n.

DISOBEDIENT a. 2 definitions

vant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.

DISOBEDIENTLY adv.

In a disobedient manner.

One who embodies.

EXPEDIENCE; EXPEDIENCY n. 3 definitions

The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self- interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience…

EXPEDIENT a. 4 definitions

esirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately.

EXPEDIENTIAL n.

. Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.

EXPEDIENTLY adv. 2 definitions

In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

Having a feat or trim body. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

FINNAN HADDIE n.

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

FODIENT n. 2 definitions

One of the Fodientia.

A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.

A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp. Raymond.

GOLDIE n. 2 definitions

The European goldfinch.

See Dragont. [Scot.]

GRADIENT a. 6 definitions

Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins.

GRENADIER n. 3 definitions

Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Gren…