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Webster's Daily: February 2008
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. On a horse, a sort of natural frizzling of the hair, which, in some places, rises above the lying hair, and there makes a figure resembling the tip of an ear of wheat. The lungs; the organs of breathing in animals. These organs in man we call. In other animals,. Tainted with mildew; as. A convulsive act of respiration obstructed by sorrow. Webster's Daily returns [Ed. Note].
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Webster's Daily: Westering, a.
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. Passing to the west. A to Z Index. Collage poems drawn from this blog have appeared in. A to Z Index. Short stories and poems. A documentary about the Hanford nuclear site. The Webster's Daily Dictionary Project is edited. Dictionary entries by Noah Webster. All content is in the public domain.
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Webster's Daily: Copple-stones, n.
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. Lumps and fragments of stone broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by being bowled and tumbled to and again by the action of water. We apply the word to small round stones, from the size of an inch or two, to five or six inches or more, in diameter, wherever they may be found. A to Z Index. Collage poems drawn from this blog have appeared in. A to Z Index.
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Webster's Daily: June 2008
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. Muzzle, v.t. To fondle with the mouth close. A small stone of a roundish form, and of no determinate size, found on the sea shore and on the banks or in the channels of rivers, &c., worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a pebble. Answer, v.i. To return, as sound reverberated; to echo. To act reciprocally, as the strings of an instrument to the hand. Double tides, n.
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Webster's Daily: April 2008
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse. When a planet is in conjunction with the sun or apparently very near it, it is said to be. Or in combustion. The distance within which this epithet is applicable to a planet, is said by some writers to be 8 1/2 degrees; others say, within the distance of half the sun's disk. One who quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.
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Webster's Daily: Bath, n.
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. A to Z Index. Collage poems drawn from this blog have appeared in. A to Z Index. Short stories and poems. A documentary about the Hanford nuclear site. The Webster's Daily Dictionary Project is edited. Dictionary entries by Noah Webster. All content is in the public domain.
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Webster's Daily: September 2008
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. After two years, this little corner of the internet has closed shop. Stick around and check out the. Archives. You can browse by date or use the A to Z Index. If you're looking for more dictionary hijinks, try Ammon Shea. Who read the entire. And wrote a book about it. (Here's Nicholson Baker's review in the NYTBR. Also, see the newly published. Passing to the west. An imaginary...
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Webster's Daily: Spray, n.
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. The water that is driven from the top of a wave in a storm, which spreads and flies in small particles. It differs from spoon-drift; as spray is only occasional, whereas spoon-drift flies continually along the surface of the sea. A to Z Index. Collage poems drawn from this blog have appeared in. A to Z Index. Short stories and poems. A documentary about the Hanford nuclear site.
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Webster's Daily: Ed. Note
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Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's. American Dictionary of the English Language. A new definition every day. After two years, this little corner of the internet has closed shop. Stick around and check out the. Archives. You can browse by date or use the A to Z Index. If you're looking for more dictionary hijinks, try Ammon Shea. Who read the entire. And wrote a book about it. (Here's Nicholson Baker's review in the NYTBR. Also, see the newly published. A to Z Index. A to Z Index.