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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,339 words match “RAS”

GRASPLESS a.
Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
GRASS n. 9 definitions
The season of fresh grass; spring. [Colloq.] Two years old next grass. Lathsm.
GRASS TREE n. 2 definitions
of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened…
GRASS-GREEN a. 2 definitions
Green with grass.
GRASS-GROWN a.
Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
GRASSATION n.
A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. [Obs. & R.] Feltham.
GRASSHOPPER n. 2 definitions
ustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related spe…
GRASSINESS n.
The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
GRASSLESS a.
Destitute of grass.
GRASSPLOT n.
A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
GRASSY a. 2 definitions
Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser.
GUATEMALA GRASS n.
See Teosinte.
HAIR GRASS n.
A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.
HARASS v. 3 definitions
cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.
HARASSER n.
One who harasses.
HARASSMENT n.
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.
HARD GRASS n.
A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.
HARIALI GRASS n.
The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.
HIPPOCRAS n.
A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
HOLOPHRASTIC a.
Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.
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