To wit, to know; namely. NWAD TOWING-PATH.2
1. Originally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety. Rahab’s house was on the town wall. Joshua 2:15. NWAD TOWN.2
A town that hath gates and bars. 1 Samuel 23:7. NWAD TOWN.3
2. Any collection of houses, larger than a village. In this use the word is very indefinite, and a town may consist of twenty houses, or of twenty thousand. NWAD TOWN.4
3. In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. NWAD TOWN.5
A town, in modern times, is generally without walls, which is the circumstance that usually distinguishes it from a city. NWAD TOWN.6
In the United States, the circumstance that distinguishes a town from a city, is generally that a city is incorporated with special privileges, and a town is not. But a city is often called a town. NWAD TOWN.7
4. The inhabitants of a town. The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways. NWAD TOWN.8
5. In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits. NWAD TOWN.9
6. In England, the court end of London. NWAD TOWN.10
7. The inhabitants of the metropolis. NWAD TOWN.11
8. The metropolis. The gentleman lives in town in winter; in summer he lives in the country. The same form of expression is used in regard to other populous towns. NWAD TOWN.12
1. A house in town; in opposition to a house in the country. NWAD TOWN-HOUSE.2
1. A selectman; an officer of the town in New England, who assists in managing the affairs of the town. [See Selectman.] NWAD TOWNSMAN.2
1. A plaything for children; a bauble. NWAD TOY.2
2. A trifle; a thing for amusement, but of no real value. NWAD TOY.3
3. An article of trade of little value. NWAD TOY.4
They exchange gold and pearl for toys. NWAD TOY.5
4. Matter of no importance. NWAD TOY.6
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. NWAD TOY.7
5. Folly; trifling practice; silly opinion. NWAD TOY.8
6. Amorous dalliance; play; sport. NWAD TOY.9
7. An old story; a silly tale. NWAD TOY.10
8. Slight representation; as the toy of novelty. NWAD TOY.11
9. Wild fancy; odd conceit. NWAD TOY.12
1. A mark left by any thing passing; a footstep; a track; a vestige; as the trace of a carriage or sled; the trade of a man or of a deer. NWAD TRACE.2
2. Remains; a mark, impression or visible appearance of any thing left when the thing itself no longer exists. We are told that there are no traces of ancient Babylon now to be seen. NWAD TRACE.3
The shady empire shall retain no trace NWAD TRACE.4
Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. NWAD TRACE.5
1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; as, to race a figure with a pencil; to trace the outline of any thing. NWAD TRACE.8
2. To follow by some mark that has been left by something which has preceded; to follow by footsteps or tracks. NWAD TRACE.9
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. NWAD TRACE.10
I feel thy power to trace the ways NWAD TRACE.11
Of highest agents. NWAD TRACE.12
3. To follow with exactness. NWAD TRACE.13
That servile path thou nobly do’st decline, NWAD TRACE.14
Of tracing word by word, and line by line. NWAD TRACE.15
4. To walk over. NWAD TRACE.16
We do trace this alley up and down. NWAD TRACE.17
Tracing lines, in a ship, are lines passing through a block or thimble, and used to hoist a thing higher. NWAD TRACING.2
1. A mark left by something that has passed along; as the track of a ship, a wake; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or sleigh. NWAD TRACK.2
2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast. Savages are said to be wonderfully sagacious in finding the tracks of men in the forest. NWAD TRACK.3
3. A road; a beaten path. NWAD TRACK.4
Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. NWAD TRACK.5
4. Course; way; as the track of a comet. NWAD TRACK.6
1. To tow; to draw a boat on the water in a canal. NWAD TRACK.8
1. Something drawn out or extended. NWAD TRACT.2
2. A region, or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent. We may apply tract to the sandy and barren desert of Syria and Arabia, or to the narrow vales of Italy and Sardinia. We say, a rich tract of land in Connecticut or Ohio, a stony tract, or a mountainous tract. We apply tract to a single farm, or to a township or state. NWAD TRACT.3
3. A treatise; a written discourse or dissertation of indefinite length, but generally not of great extent. NWAD TRACT.4
4. In hunting, the trace or footing of a wild beast. NWAD TRACT.5
5. Treatment; exposition. [Not in use.] NWAD TRACT.6
6. Track. [Not in use.] NWAD TRACT.7
7. Continuity or extension of any thing; as a tract of speech. [Not much used.] NWAD TRACT.8
8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extend; as a long tract of time. NWAD TRACT.9
1. That may be easily led, taught or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as tractable children; a tractable learner. NWAD TRACTABLE.2
2. Palpable; such as may be handled; as tractable measures. NWAD TRACTABLE.3
Bodies are tractile or intractile. NWAD TRACTILE.2
1. Attraction; a drawing towards. NWAD TRACTION.2
1. The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money. It is however chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign, or domestic or inland. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic or home trade is the exchange or buying and selling of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. NWAD TRADE.2
The carrying trade is that of transporting commodities from one country to another by water. NWAD TRADE.3
2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture. Thus we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter or mason. But we never say, the trade of a farmer or of a lawyer or physician. NWAD TRADE.4
3. Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade. NWAD TRADE.5
Hunting their sport, and plund’ring was their trade. NWAD TRADE.6
4. Instruments of any occupation. NWAD TRADE.7
The shepherd bears NWAD TRADE.8
His house and household goods, his trade of war. NWAD TRADE.9
5. Employment not manual; habitual exercise. NWAD TRADE.10
6. Custom; habit; standing practice. NWAD TRADE.11
Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade. NWAD TRADE.12
7. Men engaged in the same occupation. Thus booksellers speak of the customs of the trade. NWAD TRADE.13
1. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance. Thus we say, man treats with another for his farm, but cannot trade with him. A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep. NWAD TRADE.15
2. To act merely for money. NWAD TRADE.16
How did you dare NWAD TRADE.17
To trade and traffic with Macbeth? NWAD TRADE.18
3. To have a trade wind. NWAD TRADE.19
They on the trading flood ply tow’rd the pole. [Unusual.] NWAD TRADE.20
They traded the persons of men. Ezekiel 27:13. NWAD TRADE.22
[This, I apprehend, must be a mistake; at least it is not to be vindicated as a legitimate use of the verb.] NWAD TRADE.23
[In America, a shopkeeper is usually called a retailer.] NWAD TRADESMAN.2
1. a. Carrying on commerce; as a trading company. NWAD TRADING.2
1. Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another. NWAD TRADITION.2
A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery. NWAD TRADITION.3
The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition. NWAD TRADITION.4
2. The delivery of opinions, doctrines, practices, rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition. Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents. NWAD TRADITION.5
3. That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false. NWAD TRADITION.6
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thessalonians 2:15. NWAD TRADITION.7
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? Matthew 15:3. NWAD TRADITION.8
The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivaled in the regions of absurdity. NWAD TRADITIONAL.2
2. Observant of tradition. [Not used.] NWAD TRADITIONAL.3
Suppose we on things traditive divide. NWAD TRADITIVE.2
1. To represent as blamable; to condemn. NWAD TRADUCE.2
The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God’s church. NWAD TRADUCE.3
2. To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent. NWAD TRADUCE.4
As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing. NWAD TRADUCE.5
He had the baseness to traduce me in libel. NWAD TRADUCE.6
3. To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another. NWAD TRADUCE.7
From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.] NWAD TRADUCE.8
If by traduction came thy mind, NWAD TRADUCTION.2
Our wonder is the less to find NWAD TRADUCTION.3
A soul so charming from a stock so good. NWAD TRADUCTION.4
1. Tradition; transmission from one to another; as traditional communication and traduction of truth. [Little used.] NWAD TRADUCTION.5
2. Conveyance; transportation; act of transferring; as the traduction of animals from Europe to America by shipping. NWAD TRADUCTION.6
3. Transition. NWAD TRADUCTION.7
1. Trade; commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling. This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of retailing may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that. NWAD TRAFFICK.2
My father, NWAD TRAFFICK.3
A merchant of great traffick through the world. NWAD TRAFFICK.4
2. Commodities for market. NWAD TRAFFICK.5
1. To trade; to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to barter; to buy and sell wares; to carry on commerce. The English and Americans traffick with all the world. Genesis 42:34. NWAD TRAFFICK.7
2. To trade meanly or mercenarily. NWAD TRAFFICK.8
1. Goat’s thorn; a plant of the genus Astragalus, of several species, growing in Syria, Candia, etc. almost all of which were included by Linne in the tragacanthas, and all of which produce the gum tragacanth. NWAD TRAGACANTH.2
2. A gum obtained from the goat’s thorn. It comes in small contorted pieces resembling worms. It is of different colors; that which is white, clear, smooth and vermicular, is the best. It is somewhat soft to the touch, but only imperfectly soluble. It is softening, and used in coughs and catarrhs. NWAD TRAGACANTH.3
1. More generally, an actor of tragedy. NWAD TRAGEDIAN.2
1. A dramatic poem representing some signal action performed by illustrious persons, and generally having a fatal issue. Aeschylus is called the father of tragedy. NWAD TRAGEDY.2
All our tragedies are of kings and princes. NWAD TRAGEDY.3
2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more particularly by unauthorized violence. NWAD TRAGEDY.4
1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; tragic play or representation. NWAD TRAGIC.2
2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of Hayti the tragic horrors of Scio and Missilonghi; the tragical fate of the Greeks. NWAD TRAGIC.3
3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. NWAD TRAGIC.4
I now must change those notes to tragic. NWAD TRAGIC.5
We moralize the fable in the tragicalness of the event. NWAD TRAGICALNESS.2
1. To hunt by the track. [See the Norman, supra.] NWAD TRAIL.2
2. To draw along the ground. Trail your pikes. NWAD TRAIL.3
And hung his head, and trail’d his legs along. NWAD TRAIL.4
They shall not trail me through the streets NWAD TRAIL.5
Like a wild beast. NWAD TRAIL.6
That long behind he trails his pompous robe. NWAD TRAIL.7
3. To lower; as, to trail arms. NWAD TRAIL.8
4. In America, to tread down gras by walking through; to lay flat; as, to trail grass. NWAD TRAIL.9
When his brother saw the red blood trail. NWAD TRAIL.11
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry. NWAD TRAIL.13
1. Any thing drawn to length; as the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke. NWAD TRAIL.14
When lightning shoots in glitt’ring trails along. NWAD TRAIL.15
2. Any thing drawn behind in long undulations; a train. NWAD TRAIL.16
And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. NWAD TRAIL.17
3. The entrails of a fowl; applied sometimes to those of sheep. NWAD TRAIL.18
Trail boards, in ship-building, a term for the craved work between the cheeks of the head, at the heel of the figure. NWAD TRAIL.19
Since men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did hide. NWAD TRAILING.2
1. To draw along. NWAD TRAIN.2
In hollow cube he train’d NWAD TRAIN.3
His devilish enginery. NWAD TRAIN.4
2. Top draw; to entice; to allure. NWAD TRAIN.5
If but twelve French NWAD TRAIN.6
Were there in arms, they would be as a call NWAD TRAIN.7
To train ten thousand English to their side. NWAD TRAIN.8
3. To draw by artifice or stratagem. NWAD TRAIN.9
O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. NWAD TRAIN.10
4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise. NWAD TRAIN.11
We did train him on. NWAD TRAIN.12
5. To exercise; to discipline; to teach and form by practice; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics. Abram armed his trained servants. Genesis 14:14. NWAD TRAIN.13
The warrior horse here bred he’s taught to train. NWAD TRAIN.14
6. To break, tame and accustom to draw; as oxen. NWAD TRAIN.15
7. In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning; as, to train young trees. NWAD TRAIN.16
8. In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head. NWAD TRAIN.17
To train or train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. NWAD TRAIN.18
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6. NWAD TRAIN.19
The first christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. NWAD TRAIN.20
Now to my charms, NWAD TRAIN.22
And to my wily trains. NWAD TRAIN.23
1. Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, etc.; as the train of a gown or robe. NWAD TRAIN.24
2. The tail of a fowl. NWAD TRAIN.25
The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of a ship. NWAD TRAIN.26
3. A retinue; a number of followers or attendants. NWAD TRAIN.27
My train are men of choice and rarest parts. NWAD TRAIN.28
The king’s daughter with a lovely train. NWAD TRAIN.29
4. A series; a consecution or succession of connected things. NWAD TRAIN.30
Rivers now stream and draw their humid train. NWAD TRAIN.31
Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. NWAD TRAIN.32
--The train of ills our love would draw behind it. NWAD TRAIN.33
5. Process; regular method; course. Things are now in a train for settlement. NWAD TRAIN.34
If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature. NWAD TRAIN.35
6. A company in order; a procession. NWAD TRAIN.36
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night. NWAD TRAIN.37
7. The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time. NWAD TRAIN.38
8. A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution. NWAD TRAIN.39
Train of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army. NWAD TRAIN.40