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n. 1. [ Supposed to be a cant word, from Betty, for Elizabeth, as such an instrument is also called Bess (i. e., Elizabeth) in the Canting Dictionary of 1725, and Jenny (i. e., Jane). ] A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [ Written also bettee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Betty, nickname for Elizabeth. ] A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Malay katī. See Caddy. ] An East Indian Weight of 11/3 pounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
Syn. -- bias, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered, oblique, skew, skewed, slanted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ Tamil shāti. ] A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Hind. chi&tsdot_;&tsdot_;ī. ] 1. A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. [ India, China, etc. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Full of chits or sprouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Childish; like a babe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties /plu>. [ Hind. chapātī. ] A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. [ Anglo-Indian ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ From Clot, n. ] Full of clots, or clods. “Clotty matter.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut. ] Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scotch. ] 1. A short spoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A low stool. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ditties [ OE. dite, OF. ditié, fr. L. dictatum, p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, v. t. ] 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung. “Religious, martial, or civil ditties.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To sing; to warble a little tune. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From 2d Dot. ] 1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. [ Perh. a different word; cf. Totty. ] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. --
Fatty clays. See under Clay. --
Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. --
Fatty heart,
Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. --
Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. --
Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Flit. ] Unstable; fluttering. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See 5th Fret. ] Adorned with fretwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The name of a battle of the American Civil War fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylavania, in 1863. At this battle, the defeat of General Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union, and is considered by many a turning point in the war, after which victory by the Confederacy was no longer thought possible; as, many thousands died at Gettysburg. See also Gettysburg Address.
Syn. -- battle of Gettysburg. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

prop. n. The popular name of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a ceremony to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetary for soldiers who died fighting there. See note below. [ PJC ]

☞ Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.

a. 1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gutta drop: cf. F. goutté. Cf. Guttated. ] (Her.) Charged or sprinkled with drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. very small; tiny.
Syn. -- bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

It was an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini
that she wore for the first time today. Song lyrics [ PJC ]

a. Made of jet, or like jet in color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people . . . are of a jetty. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Jetties [ F. jetée a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Jutty. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hydraul. Engin.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jetty head (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To jut out; to project. [ Obs. ] Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Jetty, Jut, Jet. ] A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To project beyond. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. [ Etym. uncertain. ] (Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table; by extension, any pool of money aggregated from small contributions. R. F. Foster. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Sp. quitasol. ] The Chinese paper parasol. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Knottier superl. Knottiest. ] 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [ R. ] Rewe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. [ 1913 Webster ]

A knotty point to which we now proceed Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stormy petrel. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of, or consisting of, motes. [ Written also mottie. ] [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The motty dust reek raised by the workmen. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Neat clean. ] Neatly dressed; smart; trim; tidy; spruce. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nat"ti*ly, adv. -- Nat"ti*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a net, or network; netted. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nitidus. See Nitid. ] Shining; elegant; spruce. [ Obs. ] “O sweet, nitty youth.” Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of nits. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Abounding in nuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Crazy; insane; loony; batty; nuts. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Patties [ F. pâté. See Pasty. ] A little pie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A pan for baking patties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A patty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [ Colloq. ]
Syn. -- finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking, persnickety, punctilious. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

a. [ Compar. Pettier superl. Pettiest. ] [ OE. petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E. piece. Cf. Petit. ] Little; trifling; inconsiderable; unimportant; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; petty complaints; a petty prince. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a petty god
I walked about, admired of all. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Petty averages. See under Average. --
Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or amounts. --
Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See Petit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Petty + whin. ] (Bot.) The needle furze. See under Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Prettier superl. Prettiest. ] [ OE. prati, AS. prættig, prætig, crafty, sly, akin to præt, prætt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky, prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic; cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution, practice, plot. See Practice. ] 1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
Ran on the greensward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune. “Wavering a pretty while.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Elegant; neat; fine. See Handsome. [ 1913 Webster ]