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a. That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, pus. ] (Med.) Checking or preventing suppuration. -- n. An antipyic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

, v. t. [ Old form assoil&yogh_;e. See Assoil. ] (Scots Law) To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. [ 1913 Webster ]

God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple. -- Ba"by*ish*ly, adv. -- Ba"by*ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being a baby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A babyish manner of acting or speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Naut.) A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid; dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a boyish manner; like a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners or behavior of a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Boyhood. [ Obs. ] T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nature of a boy; childishness. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making a harsh noise; blaring. “Braying trumpets.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.
Syn. -- blustery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a language spoken in Northern Burma and Yunnan.
Syn. -- Lolo-Burmese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ }. The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of buying; as, buying equipment for the trip took several hours.
Syn. -- purchasing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation. This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The act or business of transporting from one place to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carrying place, a carry; a portage. --
Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ Nl., fr. Gr. khki`s, khki^dos, a gall nut + myi^a a fly. ] (Zool.) A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family comprising the gall midges.
Syn. -- family Cecidomyidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. pr. p. of comply. [ Narrower terms: compliant (vs. defiant) ]
Syn. -- obliging, yielding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of transferring a property title from one person to another.
Syn. -- conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & n. From Copy, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copying ink. See under Ink. --
Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. --
Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat coy or reserved. Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cully. [ 1913 Webster ]

Less frequent instances of eminent cullyism. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of conducting a dairy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a dandy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By delays. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of one denies a request. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. serving to make dignified.
Syn. -- ennobling. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the act of soiling something.
Syn. -- soiling, soilure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like a dowdy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life. [ 1913 Webster ]