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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



267 words match “GOING”

MESAMEBOID; MESAMOEBOID n.
lass of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.
MONTON n.
A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
NIGHT-FARING a.
Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
NOCTIVAGANT a.
Going about in the night; night-wandering.
NOCTIVAGATION n.
A roving or going about in the night. Gayton.
NOVITIATE n.
One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice. Addison.
OBJECTION n.
son or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections. "Objections against every truth." Tyndale.
OBSOLESCENT a.
Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.
OBTAIN v.
lished; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking. Jer. Taylor. The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.…
OBVIATE v.
ion; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. Woodward.
OUTFIT n.
ance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.
OUTING n.
The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
PART n.
divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a cer…
PAS n.
Right of going foremost; precedence. Arbuthnot.
PASSAGE n.
The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. What! are my doors opposed against my…
PASSING n. 2 definitions
The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonie…
PATIENT a.
Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long- suffering.
PATROL n.
A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
PEDANEOUS a.
Going on foot; pedestrian. [R.]
PEDESTRIAN a.
Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
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