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. (Phys. Geog.) A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a large towel used to dry oneself after a bath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ F., good tone, manner. ] The height of the fashion; fashionable society. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Colt. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. n. The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the raised structure rising above the deck of a submarine. [ PJC ]

pred. adj. attired in strikingly attractive clothing; -- usually of women. [ PJC ]

n. pl. colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.
Syn. -- earth colors. [ PJC ]

. (Mech.) A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pl. Fore teeth (Anat.) One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }, n. 1. (Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Music) A half step. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process. [ wns=1 ] [ PJC ]

4. the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration. [ wns=4 ]
Syn. -- halftone engraving, photoengraving. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence; as, he never went back to his hometown again. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. (Mus.) See Keynote. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. Same as cause; as, the roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big-ticket items during the 1996 Christmas season.
Syn. -- result in, lead to. [ PJC ]

2. to be a contributory cause of; as, IBM's inattention to the needs of individual users led to the demise of OS/2 as a viable alternative to Windows 95.
Syn. -- be conducive to, contribute to, lead to, conduce to. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

pl. Lions' teeth (Bot.) See Leontodon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To combine (various items) and treat them as a unit. See lump, v. i. [ PJC ]

n. A power-driven machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) A tooth that has grown in a faulty position. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ It. martello hammer. The name was orig. given to towers erected on the coasts of Sicily and Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles the Fifth, which prob. orig. contained an alarm bell to be struck with a hammer. See Martel. ] (Fort.) A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A weight of 1, 000 kilograms, or 2, 204.6 pounds avoirdupois. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. Grossly excessive; outlandish; well beyond normal; as, over-the-top action films. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. A torch designed to mix oxygen and actylene at its tip, to create a very hot flame for welding, cutting steel, and other metal working. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. By direct contact between persons. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. Without intervening persons.
Syn. -- face-to-face. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To put an end to. Hence: To prove false; to discredit; as, Galileo's observations put paid to the notion that the Earth was the center of the universe. [ PJC ]

2. To defeat; to cause the defeat of. [ PJC ]

The Argentine's infamous Hand of God goals when he punched the ball into the net, and a spectacular solo effort put paid to England in the last eight . . . Sunday Times, 17 May 1998 [ PJC ]

(Zool.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Electronics, Information science, Experimental science) The ratio of the intensity of a signal{ 2 } to the background noise detected by a measuring instrument, especially in a communications channel; the higher the ratio, the more accurately the information contained can be interpreted. The term is applied not only to human communications, but to the detection of information in any system that is being studied to gain knowledge; as, the signal-to-noise ratio of light signals in older optic fibers drops to an unusable level after several miles.. [ PJC ]

n. an unintentional utterance; a mistake in speaking.
Syn. -- slip of the lip. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

prop. n.. (Zool.) A species of toad native of Surinam. See Pipa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sleeveless and collarless shirt with wide shoulder straps and no front opening, often close-fitting and low-cut. [ PJC ]

[ From Tartini, an Italian violinist, who discovered them in 1754. ] See the Note under Tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tower or standpipe used as a water storage reservoir, to deliver water at a required head of pressure, as to a fountain. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]