*rew*

n. 1. a member of an aircrew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an airplane propeller.
Syn. -- airplane propeller, prop [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. 1 one of the twelve apostles of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland.
Syn. -- Saint Andrew, St. Andrew, Saint Andrew the Apostle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. adv. [ See Arow, Row. ] In a row. [ Obs. ] “All her teeth arew.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Naut.) A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To curse; to execrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beshrew me, but I love her heartily. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Often a very mild form of imprecation; sometimes so far from implying a curse, as to be uttered coaxingly, nay even with some tenderness. Schmidt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bestrewed p. p. Bestrewed, Bestrown (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestrewing. ] To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [ Spelt also bestrow. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pos>n. A corkscrew. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brewed p. pr. & vb. n. Brewing. ] [ OE. brewen, AS. breówan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, brūwen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. bry^ton (for fry^ton?) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to prepare by heat. √93. Cf. Broth, Bread. ] 1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. “She brews good ale.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Malt liquor; drink brewed. “Some well-spiced brewage.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity brewed at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mixing together. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brewis, brouwys, browesse, brewet, OF. brouet, -s being the OF. ending of the nom. sing. and acc. pl.; dim. of OHG. brod. √93. See Broth, and cf. Brose. ] 1. Broth or pottage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let them of their Bonner's “beef” and “broth” make what brewis they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Sir David Brewster. ] A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Concrete, a., and Accrue. ] To grow together. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. shaped like a corkscrew; spiral; helical. [ PJC ]

corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The Manx shearwater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From older accrue accession, reenforcement, hence, company, crew; the first syllable being misunderstood as the indefinite article. See Accrue, Crescent. ] 1. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

There a noble crew
Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it. Story. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

Syn. -- Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Crow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. for clewel, dim. of clew a ball of thread; or cf. D. krul curl, E. curl. √26. ] Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cruet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any member of a ship's crew.
Syn. -- sailor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a member of a flight crew.
Syn. -- crew member. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a member of a work crew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ F. décrue, n., decrease, and décru, p. p. of décroître. See Decrease, and cf. Accrue. ] To decrease. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Draw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To imbrue; to stain with blood. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ nowhere spelled backwards. ] the fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

interj. [ Fare (thou, you) + well. ] Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fare thee well! and if forever,
Still forever fare thee well. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The primary accent is sometimes placed on the first syllable, especially in poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something. [ 1913 Webster ]

And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before I take my farewell of the subject. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned. (b) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annual of the central U. S. (Gaillardia pulchella) having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center.
Syn. -- blanket flower, Indian blanket, Gaillardia pulchella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Wood for fuel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts; also called a pyrotechnic device. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The art of designing fireworks for purposes of entertainment is called pyrotechnics. The name firework is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.

2. pl. A pyrotechnic exhibition; an entertainment consisting of the discharge of fireworks{ 1 }. [ Obs. in the sing. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The van; the front. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Forewarned p. pr. & vb. n. Forewarning. ] To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. [ 1913 Webster ]

We were forewarned of your coming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]