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adv. In a bashful manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being bashful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bashfulness, Modesty, Diffidence, Shyness. Modesty arises from a low estimate of ourselves; bashfulness is an abashment or agitation of the spirits at coming into contact with others; diffidence is produced by an undue degree of self-distrust; shyness usually arises from an excessive self-consciousness, and a painful impression that every one is looking at us. Modesty of deportment is becoming in all; bashfulness often gives rise to mistakes and blundering; diffidence in society frequently makes a man a burden to himself; shyness usually produces a reserve or distance which is often mistaken for haughtiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of blushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

While from his ardent look the turning Spring
Averts her blushful face. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. [ 1913 Webster ]

These eyes behold
The deathful scene. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dishfuls As much as a dish holds when full. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [ Political cant, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character of a doughface; truckling pliability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pronged fork for turning up the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. [ 1913 Webster ]

The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him. Deut. vii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, by ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless, faithful only he. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a faithful saying. 2 Tim. ii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.

Syn. -- Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy.

-- Faith"ful*ly, adv. -Faith"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the trait of being faithful.
Syn. -- fidelity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) a fly similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Abounding with fish. [ R. ] “My fishful pond.” R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [ Obs. ] “A gashful, horrid, ugly shape.” Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having capacity of growth. [ R. ] J. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The healthful Spirit of thy grace. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Well-disposed; favorable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In health; wholesomely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being healthful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large Northern European black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix formerly Tetrao tetrix) with a lyre-shaped tail; it is also called heath grouse, black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, and moor fowl. See heath grouse under heath, above.
Syn. -- European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [ Written also hifalutin. ] [ informal ]
Syn. -- grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Perh. a corruption of highflighting. ] High-flown, bombastic language. [ Written also hifalutin. ] [ Jocular, U. S. ] Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting. Swift. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. a person of great ability and ambition. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- highflyer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as highflier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Extravagant in opinions or ambition. “Highflying, arbitrary kings.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Flying at a high altitude; -- of airplanes. [ PJC ]

3. Having an excessively high cost or perceived value; temporarily very successful; -- of objects with respect to a market and people in their occupations; as, highflying internet stocks; highflying executives moving between companies. [ PJC ]

a. Long. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. “Loathful eyes.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mirthful, comic shows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Mouthfuls 1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a small quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A statement that has a profound truth in it; as, you said a mouthful! [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Turk. & Ar. musta&hsdot_;fi&zsdot_; who trusts to another's keeping, a soldier of a garrison. ] See Army organization, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A closefisted person; a miser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has been pitchforked into the footguards. G. A. Sala. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of pith. [ R. ] W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rash; hasty; precipitate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of power to refresh; refreshing. -- Re*fresh"ful*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. 1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reproachful speeches . . .
That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive; insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous; disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful; disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*proach"ful*ly adv. -- Re*proach"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making researches; inquisitive. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of ruth; as: (a) Pitiful; tender. (b) Full of sorrow; woeful. (c) Causing sorrow. Shak. -- Ruth"ful*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Harmful; doing damage; pernicious. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Scath"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. (Zool.) Same as Sheatfish. [ 1913 Webster ]