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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



111 words match “AREW”

AREW adv.
In a row. [Obs.] "All her teeth arew." Spenser.
CAREWORN a.
Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
FAREWELL interj. 4 definitions
onoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear. Milton. Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well. Byron.
SHAREWORT n.
A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.
ACCUSTOM v.
To be wont. [Obs.] Carew.
ADIEU interj. 2 definitions
Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
ADIOS interj.
Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.
ADJOINANT a.
Contiguous. [Obs.] Carew.
AMBASSADE; EMBASSADE n.
The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.
BACCALAUREATE a.
chelor of arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.
BEAK n.
Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. Carew.
BEND n.
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. [Obs.] Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend. Fletcher.
BID v.
h, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.
BLOBBER n.
A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.
BOWSSEN v.
ng of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again. Carew.
BRANCH n.
; as, the English branch of a family. His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. Carew.
BRITTLE a.
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.
CHASTITY n.
dom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew.
CLIENTED a.
Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.
CLOD n.
A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.
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