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n. 1. 1 (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies.
Syn. -- Annwn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies.
Syn. -- Annwfn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Backward. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work woven with bobbins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. [ imp. & p. p. brainwashed; p. pr. & vb. n. brainwashing ] 1. to persuade completely; as, the propaganda brainwashed many people. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to to indoctrinate forcibly or by means of torture, or by constant psychological pressure.
Syn. -- submit to brainwashing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones. brainwashed prisoners of war; captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers unbrainwashed [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the process of forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the brain.
Syn. -- brain wave, cortical potential. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation.
Syn. -- insight, brainstorm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A species of figwort or Scrophularia (Scrophularia vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. wood of a citron tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a durable fragrant wood used in building (as in the roof of Cordova Cathedral); -- called also sandarac.
Syn. -- sandarac. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Common + weal. ] Commonwealth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a prince,
So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Common + wealth well-being. ] 1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole body of people in a state; the public. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Hist.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Syn. -- State; realm; republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) See Cudweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of grunt (Haemulon melanurum) of warm Atlantic waters.
Syn. -- Haemulon melanurum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the Populus monilifera and Populus angustifolia of the Western United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. [ 1913 Webster ]

With downward force
That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. ad&unr_;nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward. ] 1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. “Looking downwards.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

And downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. [ 1913 Webster ]

A ring the county wears,
That downward hath descended in his house,
From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weigh or press down. [ 1913 Webster ]

A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey. Opposite of upwind, and windward.
Syn. -- lee(prenominal), leeward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Inwall. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

So now all three one senseless lump remain,
Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To encircle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To widen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wind about; to encircle. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the circle of his arms
Enwound us both. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To endow with the qualities of a woman. [ R. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enwombed p. pr. & vb. n. Enwombing. ] 1. To conceive in the womb. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To envelop. See Inwrap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Inwreathe. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a common aquatic plant (Cabomba caroliniana) of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers.
Syn. -- water-shield, Cabomba caroliniana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Greenbroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The common teal (Anas crecca) of Eurasia and North America.
Syn. -- green-winged teal, Anas crecca. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A forest as it appears in spring and summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it. ] (Naut.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [ Written also gunnel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. Toward heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks. [ 1913 Webster ]