adj.
a. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger;
n.
The arming was now universal. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Arming press (Bookbinding),
a. Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
. The business of keeping a baby farm. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. Emitting beams; radiant. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a beaming manner; radiantly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. [ 1913 Webster ]
A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
Formerly sometimes followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]
Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. That which is becoming or appropriate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a becoming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. [ 1913 Webster ]
The becomingness of human nature. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To mingle; to mix. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Becoming; suitable. [ Archaic ] --
n.
n. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. In a blooming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A blooming condition. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.
a.
O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar;
a. Full to the brim; overflowing. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. [ 1913 Webster ]
How charming is divine philosophy. Milton.
--
n. pl. [ Cf. Comb a crest. ] (Naut.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.
a.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your coming days and years. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Coming in.
v. t. & i.
n. One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
adv. In a confirming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
adj. taking up most of one's attention; ardent;
adv. In a consuming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a defamatory manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. act of reducing or depriving of weapons.
adj.
n. The practice of drinking drams. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a dreamy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a radiant glance of the eye;
a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming;
n. The business of cultivating land. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. In a flaming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
n. A native or inhabitant of Flanders. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Giving off bubbles and developing a head of foam;
adv. With foam; frothily. [ 1913 Webster ]