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Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.
--Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.
--Tennyson.

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

   The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
   --Goldsmith.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
   --Spenser.

Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.
--Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.
--Tennyson.

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

   The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
   --Goldsmith.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
   --Spenser.

hard-on \hard-on\ n. An erect penis; a penile erection. [slang or vulgar]

Syn: erection.

Brin \Brin\, n. [F.] One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
--Knight.

Osier \O"sier\, n. [F. osier: cf. Prov. F. oisis, Armor. ozil, aozil, Gr. ?, ?, ?, L. vitex, and E. withy.] (Bot.)

1. A kind of willow ( Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.

2. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants. The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream. --Shak. Osier bed, or Osier holt, a place where willows are grown for basket making. [Eng.] Red osier.

   1. A kind of willow with reddish twigs ( Salix rubra).

   2. An American shrub ( Cornus stolonifera) which has slender red branches; -- also called osier cornel.

Withy \With"y\, n.; pl. Withies. [OE. withe, wipi, AS. w[=i]?ig a willow, willow twig; akin to G. weide willow, OHG. w[=i]da, Icel. v[=i]?ja, a withy, Sw. vide a willow twig, Dan. vidie a willow, osier, Gr. ?, and probably to L. vitis a vine, viere to plait, Russ. vite. [root]14

1. Cf. Wine, Withe.] 1. (Bot.) The osier willow ( Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a) .

2. A withe. See Withe, 1.

Paguma \Pa*gu"ma\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.

For- \For-\ [AS. for-; akin to D. & G. ver-, OHG. fir-, Icel. for-, Goth. fra-, cf. Skr. par[=a]- away, Gr. ? beside, and E. far, adj. Cf. Fret to rub.] A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

Stag \Stag\ (st[a^]g), n. [Icel. steggr the male of several animals; or a doubtful AS. stagga. Cf. Steg.]

1. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. The adult male of the red deer ( Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

   2. The male of certain other species of large deer.

2. A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl. [Prov. Eng.]

3. A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

4. (Stock Exchange)

   1. An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. [Cant]

   2. One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. [Cant]

5. (Zo["o]l.) The European wren. [Prov. Eng.]

   Stag beetle (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Lucanus and allied genera, especially Lucanus cervus of Europe and Lucanus dama of the United States. The mandibles are large and branched, or forked, whence the name. The larva feeds on the rotten wood of dead trees. Called also horned bug, and horse beetle.

   Stag dance, a dance by men only. [Slang, U.S.]

   Stag hog (Zo["o]l.), the babiroussa.

   Stag-horn coral (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of large branching corals of the genus Madrepora, which somewhat resemble the antlers of the stag, especially Madrepora cervicornis, and Madrepora palmata, of Florida and the West Indies.

   Stag-horn fern (Bot.), an Australian and West African fern ( Platycerium alcicorne) having the large fronds branched like a stag's horns; also, any species of the same genus.

   Stag-horn sumac (Bot.), a common American shrub ( Rhus typhina) having densely velvety branchlets. See Sumac.

   Stag party, a party consisting of men only. [Slang, U. S.]

   Stag tick (Zo["o]l.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the family Hippoboscid[ae], which lives upon the stag and is usually wingless. The same species lives also upon the European grouse, but in that case has wings.

lateral \lat"er*al\, lateral pass \lat"er*al pass`\, n. (Football)

1. A short pass to a receiver who is upfield from the passer, i.e. is behind the passer relative to the direction of the passer's goal.

2. A part or extension of something that points sideways, as a drift in a mine that goes to the side from the main one.

Grist \Grist\, n. [AS. grist, fr. grindan. See Grind.]

1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.

   Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.
   --Tusser. Q.

2. Supply; provision.
   --Swift.

3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
   --Knight.

   All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.]

   To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [Colloq.]
   --Ayliffe.

Puppetry \Pup"pet*ry\, n. Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.

Puppetry of the English laws of divorce.
--Chambers.

Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Assigning.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L. assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum mark, sign. See Sign.]

1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

   In the order I assign to them.
   --Loudon.

   The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
   --Southey.

   He assigned to his men their several posts.
   --Prescott.

2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.

   All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
   --Spenser.

   It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
   --De Quincey.

3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

   To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.
   --Kent.

Pyxie \Pyx"ie\ (p[i^]ks"[i^]), n. (Bot.) Same as Pixy.

Preadmission \Pre`ad*mis"sion\, n. Lit., previous admission; specif. (Engin.), admission, as of steam, to the engine cylinder before the back stroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.

Micrometer \Mi*crom"e*ter\, n. [Micro- + -meter: cf. F. microm[`e]tre.] An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.

Circular micrometer, or Ring micrometer, a metallic ring fixed in the focus of the object glass of a telescope, and used to determine differences of right ascension and declination between stars by observations of the times at which the stars cross the inner or outer periphery of the ring.

Double image micrometer, a micrometer in which two images of an object are formed in the field, usually by the two halves of a bisected lens which are movable along their line of section by a screw, and distances are determined by the number of screw revolutions necessary to bring the points to be measured into optical coincidence. When the two images are formed by a bisected object glass, it is called a divided-object-glass micrometer, and when the instrument is large and equatorially mounted, it is known as a heliometer.

Double refraction micrometer, a species of double image micrometer, in which the two images are formed by the double refraction of rock crystal.

Filar micrometer, or Bifilar micrometer. See under Bifilar.

Micrometer caliper or Micrometer gauge (Mech.), a caliper or gauge with a micrometer screw, for measuring dimensions with great accuracy.

Micrometer head, the head of a micrometer screw.

Micrometer microscope, a compound microscope combined with a filar micrometer, used chiefly for reading and subdividing the divisions of large astronomical and geodetical instruments.

Micrometer screw, a screw with a graduated head used in some forms of micrometers; turning the head one full revolution advances the position of the tip of the screw only by a little.

Position micrometer. See under Position.

Scale micrometer, or Linear micrometer, a minute and very delicately graduated scale of equal parts used in the field of a telescope or microscope, for measuring distances by direct comparison.

jeweled \jeweled\ jewelled \jewelled\adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins.

Syn: beaded, beady, bejewelled, bejeweled, bespangled, gemmed, sequined, spangled, spangly.

Immeability \Im`me*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Pref. im- not + L. meabilis passable, fr. meare to pass.] Lack of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeability of the juices.
--Arbuthnot.

Polyacoustics \Pol`y*a*cous"tics\, n. The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

Inisle \In*isle"\, v. t. [Cf. Enisled.] To form into an island; to surround. [Obs.]
--Drayton.

n. 1 The act of encircle or the state of being encircled 2 (context military English) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it

n. A folding around something. vb. (present participle of enfold English)

vb. (context idiomatic English) To struggle to think of or remember something.

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

alt. (context intransitive English) To lose one's physical or emotional control vb. (context intransitive English) To lose one's physical or emotional control

a. not in agreement, especially in musical pitch

n. (ordinary differential equation English)

alt. (context slang vulgar English) erection of the penis n. (context slang vulgar English) erection of the penis

n. Any arthritis affecting five or more joints, often caused by an autoimmune disorder.

n. One of the radiating sticks of a fan.

a. 1 Of less than a traditional or accepted standard 2 (context golf English) below par 3 (context finance English) Trading a price below face value.

n. (mark-to-market English)

vb. (en-third-person singularhash out)

n. (context zoology English) Any of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus (taxlink Paguma genus noshow=1), resembling weasels.

vb. (context ambitransitive English) to spend a lot of money on something pleasant, but not necessary.

n. (alternative spelling of coho English)

n. (alternative spelling of sulfur works English)

pre. 1 (context no longer productive English) Meaning "far", "away"; "from", "out" e.g. forbid, forget, forsay; forbear, fordeem. 2 (context no longer productive English) Meaning "completely", "to the fullest extent" e.g. fordo; superseded by combinations with "up" in senses where no upward movement is involved, e.g. forgive = ''give up (one's offenses)'', forgather = "gather up", forbeat = "beat up", etc. 3 (context dialectal English) very; excessively.

part. (context US dialectal Scottish English) (eye dialect of yes English)

n. A cephalosporin antibiotic.

n. (context basketball English) A shot attempted from beyond the three-point line.

n. (plural of professorship English)

interj. The hoot of an owl. n. The hoot of an owl.

vb. (en-third-person singular of: convene)

n. (bush baptist English)

n. (context US English) chaise longue

n. The state or quality of being beyond.

a. Of, from, or pertaining to Atacama. n. Someone from Atacama.

n. (misspelling of surprise English) vb. (misspelling of surprise English)

n. (context pathology English) Any developmental disorder of an embryo

n. 1 (context American football English) a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off 2 (context American football English) any hand-off, whether lateral or backward

n. (plural of forcefield English)

a. Not golf; not associated with golfing.

n. a 24-hour, continuously updated news service on radio or television

n. (context publishing broadcasting English) factual reportage of events which are socially or politically significant and of a serious nature, as opposed to the reporting of entertaining, humorous, or gossipy accounts of relatively inconsequential events.

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art of making, and performing with puppets 2 (context countable English) The action of a puppet, or a stilted or puppet-like dramatic performance

a. Prior to admission (to a hospital, university, etc.). n. Admission, as of steam, to an engine cylinder before the backstroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.

vb. (en-past of: escrow)

n. (context informal music English) A female soulster.

n. 1 A fast boat, usually small (for 1-8 people) 2 A boat designed and built for racing 3 A boat used for waterskiing

n. (plural of webform English)

n. (plural of anisotropy English)

n. A large shrub, ''Calotropis gigantea'', growing up to 4 meters tall, with clusters of waxy flowers that are either white or lavender in color.

n. 1 (context UK dialectal Scotland English) A nation; people. 2 (context UK dialectal Scotland English) A country; land; kingdom.

a. (alternative spelling of jewelled English)

Etymology 1 contraction (context archaic English) (alternative spelling of won't English) Etymology 2

contraction (context archaic English) (alternative spelling of wouldn't English)

n. (plural of eroticisation English)

adv. In a deontological manner.

n. Inability to pass through or to permit passage.

n. The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

a. 1 Other than what is apparent, a sham. 2 insincere. 3 spurious. n. 1 An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual. 2 A poseur; one who is fake. 3 (context travel industry informal English) pseudo-city code 4 (context Internet English) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity. 5 (short for pseudoephedrine English)

n. (context mineral English) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.

n. (plural of placoderm English)

a. Of or relating to mechatronics.

vb. (alternative form of troak English)

vb. (obsolete form of enisle English)