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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,541 words match “PING”

TOPPING a. 6 definitions

Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

TOPPINGLY adv. 2 definitions

In a topping or proud manner.

TRAPPINGS n. 2 definitions

That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak.

TRIPPING a. 5 definitions

Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

TRIPPINGLY adv.

In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly. Sing, and dance it trippingly. Shak. Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue. Shak.

UNDERSTRAPPING a.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] Sterne.

USURPINGLY adv.

In a usurping manner.

Yelping. [R.] Fuller.

WARPING n. 2 definitions

The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver. Craig. Warping bank, a bank of earth raised round a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land. Craig. -- Warping hook, a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring. -- Warping mill, a mac…

WEEPING a. 5 definitions

Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." I. Watts.

WEEPING TREE n. 2 definitions

Any tree having pendulous branches.

WEEPING-RIPE a.

Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] Shak.

In a weeping manner.

WHAPPING; WHOPPING a.

Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. [Colloq.]

a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for…

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

g-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.