The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
Abloom
adv. [ Pref. a- + bloom. ] In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Accustom
v. t.
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Accustom
v. i.
We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Accustom
n. Custom. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Addoom
v. t. [ Pref. a- + doom. ] To adjudge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
agrom
‖n. [ Native name. ] (Med.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
Amber room
A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. [ PJC ]
Anadrom
n. [ Cf. F. anadrome. ] (Zool.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]
Anglo-Saxondom
n. The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race. [ 1913 Webster ]
Anteroom
n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. [ 1913 Webster ]
Archdukedom
n. An archduchy. [ 1913 Webster ]
Atom
n. [ L. atomus, Gr. &unr_;, uncut, indivisible;
☞ These three definitions correspond to different views of the nature of the ultimate particles of matter. In the case of the last two, the particles are more correctly called molecules. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]
There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross. [ 1913 Webster ]
Atom
v. t. To reduce to atoms. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]
Axiom
n. [ L. axioma, Gr. &unr_; that which is thought worthy, that which is assumed, a basis of demonstration, a principle, fr. &unr_; to think worthy, fr. &unr_; worthy, weighing as much as; cf. &unr_; to lead, drive, also to weigh so much: cf F. axiome. See Agent, a. ]
Bachelordom
n. The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors. [ 1913 Webster ]
backroom
n.
Ballroom
n. A room for balls or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]
Barroom
n.
Bedroom
n.
Then by your side no bed room me deny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
bell-bottom
Besom
n. [ OE. besme, besum, AS. besma; akin to D. bezem, OHG pesamo, G. besen; of uncertain origin. ] A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [ Archaic or Fig. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]
The housemaid with her besom. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
Besom
v. t.
Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]
Birthdom
n. [ Birth + -dom. ] The land of one's birth; one's inheritance. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bishopdom
n. Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. “Divine right of bishopdom.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blissom
v. i. [ For blithesome: but cf. also Icel. bl&unr_;sma of a goat at heat. ] To be lustful; to be lascivious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Blissom
a. Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bloom
n. [ OE. blome, fr. Icel. bl&unr_;m, bl&unr_;mi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. bl&unr_;ma, OS. bl&unr_;mo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. bl&unr_;wan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom. ]
The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bloom
v. i.
A flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bloom
v. t.
Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bloom
n. [ AS. bl&unr_;ma a mass or lump, īsenes bl&unr_;ma a lump or wedge of iron. ] (Metal.)
Blossom
n. [ OE. blosme, blostme, AS. blōsma, blōstma, blossom; akin to D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Bloom a blossom. ]
☞ The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla. It is more commonly used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
In the blossom of my youth. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]
In blossom,
Blossom
v. i.
The moving whisper of huge trees that branched
And blossomed. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
boardroom
n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
Bom
n. (Zool.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes. [ 1913 Webster ]
Boom
n. [ D. boom tree, pole, beam, bar. See Beam. ]
Boom iron,
The booms,
Boom
v. t. (Naut.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole;
Boom
v. i.
At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Alarm guns booming through the night air. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
She comes booming down before it. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]
Boom
n.
Boom
v. t. To cause to advance rapidly in price;
Boredom
n.
Bosom
n. [ AS. bōsm; akin to D. bozem, Fries. bōsm, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough. ]
You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
Wherefore they do it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]
Within the bosom of that church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. Ex. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
bosom
a.
bosom
v. t.
Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bottom
v. t. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
As you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bottom
n. [ OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr.
Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]
Full bottom,
At bottom,
At the bottom
To be at the bottom of,
To go to the bottom,
To touch bottom,
Bottom
a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
Bottom glade,
Bottom grass,
Bottom land.
Bottom
v. t.
Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state ]. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bottom
v. i.
Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bottom
n. [ OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button. ] A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bridegroom
n. [ OE. bridegome, brudgume, AS. br&ymacr_;dguma (akin to OS. brūdigumo, D. bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. prūtigomo, MHG. briutegome, G. bräutigam); AS. br&ymacr_;d bride + guma man, akin to Goth. guma, Icel. gumi, OHG. gomo, L. homo; the insertion of