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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6,282 words match “ICE”

The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE n.

A feminine deserter. Milton.

DEVICE n. 7 definitions

ance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. His device in against Babylon, to destroy it. Jer. li. 11. Their recent device of demanding benevolences. Hallam. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job v. 12.

Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

DEVICEFULLY adv.

In a deviceful manner. [R.]

DICE n. 3 definitions

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.

A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]

Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester. As false as dicers' oaths. Shak.

DISPLICENCE; DISPLICENCY n.

Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

DISPREJUDICE v.

To free from prejudice. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Injury; mischief. We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne.

DISSERVICEABLE a.

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. P…

Capable of being enticed.

ENTICEMENT n. 2 definitions

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.