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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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20 words match “EVET”

EVET n.
The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]
BREVET v. 4 definitions
To confer rank upon by brevet.
BREVETCY n.
The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
CHEVET n.
The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
CREVET n.
A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.
LEVET n.
A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille. [Obs.] Hudibras.
REVET v.
To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
REVETMENT n.
A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall. [Written also revêtement (
TREVET n.
A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.
BELIEVE v.
f or faith. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 24. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rom. x. 10.
COUNTERFORT n.
A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
CRAMOISIE; CRAMOISY a.
Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.
FASCINE n.
raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
HURDLE n.
ing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
IDYL n.
f Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoug…
JUSTIFIER n.
mselves and hypocrites. Strype. That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Rom. iii. 26.
OFFEND v.
e law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James ii. 10. If it be a sin to cevet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak.
SIMPLE a.
nding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly. "You have simple wits." Shak. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going. Prov. xiv. 15.
SPIDER n.
A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.
TRIVET n.
ally, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. [Written also trevet.]