Search the Dictionary

; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. The rubadub of the abolition presses. D. Webster.

n; ruined. My brother Edward lives in pomp and state, I in a mansion here all ruinate. J. Webster.

to cut short or down. [Obs.] All their pay Must your discretion scantle; keep it back. J. Webster.

assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be. D. Webster.

and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. D. Webster.

things were transacted in silence. The administration itself keeps a profound silence. D. Webster.

A hat shaped like a sugar loaf. Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf J. Webster. -- Sugar maple (Bot.), the rock maple (Acer saccharinum). See Maple. -- Sugar mill, a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed.…

ossession of; to hold. [Obs.] Not with me, That in my hands surprise the sovereignity. J. Webster.

To be hanged. [Colloq.] D. Webster. To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.] He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. A. V. G. Allen.

vous. [Obs.] But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. J. Webster (1654).

To transshape. [R.] J. Webster (1623).

the laces of garments. [Obs.] "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." J. Webster (1607). -- To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight. -- Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.

To unbolt; to unbar; to open. You shall not unbarricade the door. J. Webster (1623).

To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of. [R.] J. Webster (1607).

Infinitely. [Obs.] I am . . . unboundably beholding to you. J. Webster (1607).

Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster.

myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.

United; joint; as, unite consent. [Obs.] J. Webster.

t upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." D. Webster. So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

at variance or in dissension; as, men vary in opinion. The rich jewel which we vary for. Webster (1623).