| Always | At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. – Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; — opposed to sometimes or occasionally. |
| Around | In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. – In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. – Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place. – On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about. – From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner. |
| Because | By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. – In order that; that. |
| Been | The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. – To exist in a certain manner or relation, — whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, — a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man. – To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday. – To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to. |
| Before | In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. – Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; — sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that. – An advance of; farther onward, in place or time. – Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than. – In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing. – Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of. – Open for; free of access to; in the power of. – On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; — opposed to in the rear. – In advance. – In time past; previously; already. – Earlier; sooner than; until then. |
| Best | Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. – Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject. – Most; largest; as, the best part of a week. – Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one’s best; to the best of our ability. – In the highest degree; beyond all others. – To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety. – Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself. – To get the better of. |
| Both | The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either. – As well; not only; equally. |
| Buy | To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; — opposed to sell. – To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. – To negotiate or treat about a purchase. |
| Cold | Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. – Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. – Not pungent or acrid. – Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. – Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. – Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. – Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. – Not sensitive; not acute. – Distant; — said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. – Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. – The relative absence of heat or warmth. – The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. – A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. – To become cold. |
| Does | The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do. |
| Don | Sir; Mr; Signior; — a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. – A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. – To put on; to dress in; to invest one’s self with. |
| First | Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. – Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others. – Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece. – Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; — much used in composition with adjectives and participles. – The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; — so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect. |
| Five | Four and one added; one more than four. – The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects. – A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V. |
| Found | imp. & p. p. of Find. – To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. – A thin, single-cut file for combmakers. – To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. – To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. – To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. – To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. – To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. – To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. – To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. – Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin. |
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| Green | Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. – Having a sickly color; wan. – Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. – Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. – Not roasted; half raw. – Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. – Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. – The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. – A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. – Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; — usually in the plural. – pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. – Any substance or pigment of a green color. – To make green. – To become or grow green. |
| Its | Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It. |
| Many | A retinue of servants; a household. – Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few. – The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community. – A large or considerable number. |
| Off | In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as: – Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off. – Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like. – Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off. – Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off. – Denoting opposition or negation. – Away; begone; — a command to depart. – Not on; away from; as, to be off one’s legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore. – On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg. – Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics. – The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper. |
| Pull | To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. – To draw apart; to tear; to rend. – To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. – To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. – To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. – To take or make, as a proof or impression; — hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. – To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. – To exert one’s self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope. – The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. – A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. – A pluck; loss or violence suffered. – A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. – The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. – The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. – Something in one’s favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull. – A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. |
| Read | Rennet. See 3d Reed. – of Read – To advise; to counsel. – To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. – To tell; to declare; to recite. – To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one’s self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. – Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. – To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. – To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. – To give advice or counsel. – To tell; to declare. – To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. – To study by reading; as, he read for the bar. – To learn by reading. – To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts. – To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly. – Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. – Reading. – imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i. – Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. |
| Sing | To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. – To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. – To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. – To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. – Ti cry out; to complain. – To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice. – To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. – To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep. – To accompany, or attend on, with singing. |
| Sleep | imp. of Sleep. Slept. – To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. – To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. – To be dead; to lie in the grave. – To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps. – To be slumbering in; — followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. – To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. – A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. |
| Tell | To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. – To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. – To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. – To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. – To order; to request; to command. – To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins. – To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. – To give an account; to make report. – To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. – That which is told; tale; account. – A hill or mound. |
| Their | The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. |
| These | The plural of this. See This. – As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town. |
| Those | The plural of that. See That. |
| Upon | On; — used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable. |
| Very | True; real; actual; veritable. – In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt. |
| Which | Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. – A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1. – A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons. – A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will. |
| Why | For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; — used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1. – For which; on account of which; — used relatively. – The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; — used as a compound relative. – A young heifer. |
| Wish | To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker. – To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward. – To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate. – To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of. – Desire; eager desire; longing. – Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation. – A thing desired; an object of desire. |
| Write | To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. – To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter. – Hence, to compose or produce, as an author. – To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart. – To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one’s own written testimony; — often used reflexively. – To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. – To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices. – To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose. – To compose or send letters. |
| Your | The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. |
