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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



188 words match “PANT”

COSMOTHEISM n.
Same as Pantheism. [R.]
COUGAR n.
An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.
COUNTERTRIPPING a.
Same as Countertrippant.
COVEY n.
A pantry. [Prov. Eng.] Parker.
DENIZEN v.
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker.
DISCREPANCE; DISCREPANCY n.
The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.
DISTANT a.
Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
DOORPLANE n.
A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
DOS--DOS n.
A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.
DUMB a.
under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and noise." Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to depriv…
EIDOGRAPH n.
An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.
ENTER v.
ce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some…
ESPOUSE v.
pouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia will I make my empress, . . . And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse. Shak.
FELIS n.
A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.
FLIPPANCY n.
The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. Bp. Hurd.
FOURSOME a.
Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]
GASP v. 2 definitions
the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently. She gasps and struggles hard for life. Lloyd.
GERANIACEOUS a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceæ) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others.
GLIB a.
Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak.
GOD n.
or despotic power. [R.] Shak. Act of God. (Law) See under Act. -- Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [O…
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