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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,256 words match “ROWN”

ASTRONOMIZE v.
To study or to talk astronomy. [R.] They astronomized in caves. Sir T. Browne.
ATTEMPT v.
To make an attempt; -- with upon. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
ATTENDMENT n.
An attendant circumstance. [Obs.] The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
ATTRACTOR n.
One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
AU GRATIN n.
With a crust made by browning in the oven; as, spaghetti may be served au gratin.
AUBURN a.
Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
AUDIENT a.
Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning.
AUGMENTATION n.
ourt (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.
AUGURIAL a.
Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.
AUREOLA; AUREOLE n.
A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
AUSTRALIZE v.
Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.
AUTOMATOUS a.
Automatic. [Obs.] "Automatous organs." Sir T. Browne.
AUTOPTICALLY adv.
By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. Sir T. Browne.
AVEL v.
To pull away. [Obs.] Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne.
AVENTURE n.
A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
AVOID v.
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
AWE n.
Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.
AWRY adv.
ht course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.
AXINITE n.
A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
BACK v.
wn a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one. -- To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win. -- To back the oars, to row backwar…
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