*aunt*

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flaunt. ] In a flaunting state or position. Copley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alan. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. With gaunt or slender legs. (?) “An armgaunt steed.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is peculiar to Shakespeare. Its meaning has not yet been satisfactorily explained. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ F. autant as much (as possible). ] (Naut.) Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adamant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister. Cf. Amma. ] 1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An old woman; and old gossip. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ See Adventure. ] To venture; to dare. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adventurous. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adventure; hap. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In aunters, perchance. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ F. avant forward, fr. L. ab + ante before. Cf. Avant, Advance. ] Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase “Get thee gone.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. 1. To advance; to move forward; to elevate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To depart; to move away. [ Obs. ] Coverdale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ OF. avanter; à (L. ad) + vanter. See Vaunt. ] To vaunt; to boast. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vaunt; to boast. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. avanteur. ] A boaster. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Chant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chantry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Daunting. ] [ OF. danter, F. dompter to tame, subdue, fr. L. domitare, v. intens. of domare to tame. See Tame. ] 1. To overcome; to conquer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

Syn. -- To dismay; appall. See Dismay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who daunts. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. serving to discourage, dishearten, or intimidate; discouraging; disheartening. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn. -- intimidating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dauntless he rose, and to the fight returned. Dryden.

-- Daunt"less*ly, adv. -- Daunt"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. resolute courageousness.
Syn. -- intrepidity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. en- + aunter. ] Lest that. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Commission; fiat; order; decree. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flaunted; p. pr. & vb. n.. Flaunting. ] [ Cf. dial. G. flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter, flutter. ] To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. [ 1913 Webster ]

You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of. “If you've got it, flaunt it.” [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Anything displayed for show. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In these my borrowed flaunts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flaunting way. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak. ] Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. “The gaunt mastiff.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) See Gantlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gantelet, dim. of gant glove, LL. wantus, of Teutonic origin; cf. D. want, Sw. & Dan. vante, Icel. vöttr, for vantr. ] 1. A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was sometimes of chain mail, sometimes of leather partly covered with plates, scales, etc., of metal sewed to it, and, in the 14th century, became a glove of small steel plates, carefully articulated and covering the whole hand except the palm and the inside of the fingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A long glove, covering the wrist. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. --
To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing a gauntlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a gaunt manner; meagerly.

{ } n. [ F. chantier, LL. cantarium, fr. L. canterius trellis, sort of frame. ] 1. A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Engin.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. grand'tante. ] The aunt of one's father or mother. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. & n. [ Obs. ] See Grant. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting. ] [ F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). √36. ] 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To accustom; to habituate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Haunt thyself to pity. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Often used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ] The household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ] The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The habit of resorting to a place. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Practice; skill. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. [ 1913 Webster ]

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, haunts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To jolt; to jounce. [ Obs. ] Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Jaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jaunting. ] [ Cf. Scot. jaunder to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer, dial. Sw. ganta to play the buffoon, romp, jest; perh. akin to E. jump. Cf. Jaunce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ride on a jaunting car. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [ Written also jaunty car. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wearisome journey. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind
After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore.
Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a jaunty manner. [ 1913 Webster ]