Cut definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CUT, v.t. pret. and prep. cut. [L., to thrust, to drive, to strike.] 1. To separate ... which separates the external part of a body, as to cut the flesh. It signifies also, to cut into pieces; to sever or divide; as, to cut timber in the forest. But when an entire separation ...
Dry definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DRY, a. [See the Verb.] 1. Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as dry land; dry clothes. 2. Not rainy; free from rain or mist; as dry weather; a dry March or April. 3. Not juicy; free from juice, ...
... air it is often so soft that it can be cut with a knife, but under the influence of the atmosphere ... middle of September until the end of October, when the dry southeast winds--the sirocco--blow hot and stifling from over ... downpours accompanied by thunder. After this there is frequently a dry spell of several weeks, and then the winter's rain ... largely accumulates in the very primitive drains all through the dry season, it requires a considerable force of water to remove ... the rainy season, and only once or twice in the dry. This "intermittent" condition of springs is not uncommon in Palestine ... s well which finds its way along an ancient rock-cut aqueduct on the west side of the Wady en ...
... Its root resembles a carrot. DOCK, v.t. 1. To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. 2. To cut off a part; to shorten; to deduct from; as, to dock an account. 3. To cut off, destroy or defeat; to bar; as, to dock an ... a dock. DOCK, n. 1. The tail of a beast cut short or clipped; the stump of a tail; the solid ... a river, in which ships are built or repaired. A dry dock has flood-gates to admit the tide, and ...
... as the "Mediterranean region," a region characterized climatically by very dry, hot summers and fairly mild winters. Plants here grow in spring, rest in the hot, dry season and grow again in autumn; the long-continued, scorching ... the flora of Palestine abounds with examples. Equally characteristic are dry, much-branched spiny trees or shrubs with scanty foliage and ... the destruction has been increasingly ruthless. First the branches are cut, then the trunks are leveled, and finally the very roots ... trunks are soon destroyed and then the rising branches are cut as soon as they reach any size, so that miles ... to Joshua's twice-repeated command to the people to cut down the "forest," as the inhabited areas were too ...
... almost desolate, the country then teemed with population. Wine-presses cut in the rocks, endless terraces, and the ruins of old ... the plateaus of Golan, Bashan, and Lower Galilee with lava, cut off the Jordan valley from the Red Sea, and formed ... few days at a time, when (espescially in May) the dry wind--deficient in ozone--blows from the eastern desert. For ... Ge 13:1; 20:1), called in Hebrew the neghebh, "dry" country, on the edge of the cultivated lands. From East ... an interesting touch, since the tree is distinctive of the dry lowlands. From Beersheba Abraham journeyed to "the land of Moriah ... Moab (21:22) agrees with the discovery of ancient rock-cut wine presses near Heshbon (SEP, I, 221). The view ...
... to the store" 2: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars ... 1 decayed after prosperity. 2 enfeebled through overwork etc. run dry cease to flow, be exhausted. run for it seek safety ... run on sterling has killed off hopes of a rate cut... N-SING: N on n 41. A ski run or ... PHRASE: V inflects 45. If a river or well runs dry, it no longer has any water in it. If an oil well runs dry, it no longer produces any oil. Streams had run dry for the first time in memory. = dry up PHRASE: ...
Wood cut definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Wood Wood, n. [OE. wode ... cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid ... Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid ... sylvestris). Wood culver (Zo["o]l.), the wood pigeon. Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an ... on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. Wood fern. (Bot ...
... herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay 2: German writer of novels and ... 3: spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach 4: cover with grass [syn: grass, grass over ... genus Megalurus, living among reeds. grass-box a receptacle for cut grass on a lawnmower. grass-cloth a linen-like cloth ... grass, for example in your garden. I'm going to cut the grass. N-SING: usu the N 3. Grass is ... Kings 19:26; Ps. 129:6; Isa. 37:27). The dry stalks of grass were often used as fuel for the ... 15,23, and is translated "tender grass." (3) chashash, probably "dry" or "cut grass"; compare Arabic chashesh, "dry fodder" or " ...
... cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid ... Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid ... sylvestris). Wood culver (Zo["o]l.), the wood pigeon. Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an ... on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. Wood fern. (Bot ... cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid ... Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic ...
... cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid ... Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid ... sylvestris). Wood culver (Zo["o]l.), the wood pigeon. Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an ... on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. Wood fern. (Bot ... cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid ... Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary HACK, v.t. 1. To cut irregularly and into small pieces; to notch; to mangle by ... catches; to speak with hesitation. HACK, n. A notch; a cut. HACK, n. A horse kept for hire; a horse much ... horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. v 1: cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack] 2: be able ... successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: hack, cut] 3: cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest" 4: ...
... winter. An open and warm winter portendeth a hot and dry summer. Johnson interprets open, in this passage, by not cloudy ... a covering from; as, to open a pit. 5. To cut through; to perforate; to lance; as, to open the skin ... a bottle, box, parcel, or envelope, you move, remove, or cut part of it so you can take out what is ... conspicuous, contingent, continuant, contribute, conversable, cordial, cover, crack, crevasse, current, cut, cut apart, cut open, debatable, declared, dehiscent, deltoid, demonstrative, dental, denuded, dependent, ...
... skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned. 3. The body; the person; in ludicrous language ... syn: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter] 2: bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy ... rind) of b. to strip or peel off c. to cut, chip, or damage the surface of < fell and skinned my ... and migrate to the surface to form a dead, relatively dry outer layer of horny tissue that constantly sloughs away. The ... hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a ... corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, cover, covering, crack, craze, crust, cursoriness, cut, cut off, deal, decorticate, defeat, defoliate, defrauder, denounce, denude, ...