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imp. & p. p. of Understand.

imp. of Undertake.

To take out the teeth of. Cowper.

The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written also wappato.]

oWithstand.

ith a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long…

istake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

otter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [R.] Walker.

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

nting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

o maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.