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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



144 words match “GREW”

HORNER n.
One who works or deal in horn or horns. [R.] Grew.
HOSPITATE v.
To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.] Grew.
HUFF v.
To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.
HUSSY n.
thless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.
INOSCULATE v.
To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.
INSITIENCY n.
Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.
INTASTABLE a.
Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.
ISM n.
A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.
JERK n.
A sudden start or spring. Lobsters . . . swim backwards by jerks or springs. Grew.
KECKY a.
Resembling a kecksy. Grew.
KIT n.
A small violin. "A dancing master's kit." Grew. Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens.
KNOBBED a.
of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.
LAP v.
opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay. Grew.
LAPWORK n.
Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
LEATHERY a.
Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
LIENTERIC a.
A lientery. Grew.
LUCIFIC a.
Producing light. Grew.
LUTARIOUS a.
Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud. [Obs.] Grew.
MAGNIFY v.
t error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.
MAINTAIN v.
end; not to surrender or relinquish. God values . . . every one as he maintains his post. Grew.
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