v. t.
She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]
These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
This proud king . . . studies day and night
To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I will . . . send him to answer thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
And grievously hath Cæzar answered it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]
Money answereth all things. Eccles. x. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]
Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
There was no voice, nor any that answered. 1 Kings xviii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Do the strings answer to thy noble hand? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
If this but answer to my just belief,
I 'll remember you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Prov. xxvii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. andsware, AS. andswaru; and against + swerian to swear. √177, 196. See Anti-, and Swear, and cf. 1st un-. ]
At my first answer no man stood with me. 2 Tim. iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
Great the slaughter is
Here made by the Roman; great the answer be
Britons must take. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who answers. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. See Assuage. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ AS. aswebban; a + swebban. See Sweven. ] To stupefy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a state of swinging. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a swoon. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a swoon. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. aligned from front to back; slanted toward the back; -- used of hair.
n. any of numerous predaceous aquatic insects of the family
n. [ 2d back, n. + sword. ]
See under 1st Bank, n. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) The bass (
All the bowls were made of basswood,
White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Contr. from bellyswagger. ] A lewd man; also, a bully. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ AS. beswīcan; be- + swīcan to deceive, entice; akin to OS. swīkan, OHG. swīhhan, Icel. svīkja. ] To lure; to cheat. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Boat + swain. ]
Boatswain's mate,
n. See Bondwoman. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a genus of incense-yielding trees of North Africa and India.
a. Relating to, or characteristic of,
n. The style of
n. A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. [ 1913 Webster ]
I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
See Japan black. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a female businessman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back.
n. a female member of a clan.
n. A large swan. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cock a boat + swain; hence, the master of a boat. ] The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew. [ 1913 Webster ]
same as cocus wood.
n. [ Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country. ] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cotswold sheep,
n. A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Cockswain. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Crossroad. [ 1913 Webster ]