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a. Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. description of something in detail.
Syn. -- particularization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Thorough cleaning, esp. of the interior of automobiles.
Syn. -- detailed cleaning. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. [ 1913 Webster ]

And ever in her mind she cast about
For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

Syn. -- See Fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment.
Syn. -- imprisonment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Scot., fr. mail tribute, rent. See 2d Mail. ] A farm. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of sending materials through the mail. [ PJC ]

2. A quantity of mail, such as letters, magazines, advertising brochures, etc., sent at one time by one person or organization; as, the ads with coupons will go out in our next mailing. [ PJC ]

n. The postal address where a maile can be addressed to a person or organization. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A list of names and addresses to which advertising, solicitations of money, or other materials material sent in large quantities is mailed; -- it is usually used by comercial or charitable organizations. Mailing lists are often sold by organizations to other organizations, and are frequently used for targeted mailing, i. e., mailing to groups of people who are more likely htan the general population to respond as desired to the message in the mail. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. 1. Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. See Prevalent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to prevail. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressing reproach; insulting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A barrier made of a rail or of rails, together with vertical supports. The typical railing in the interior of structures or on porches has a horizontal rail near waist height, and multiple vertical supports. Its function is usually to provide a safety barrier at the edge of a verticle drop to prevent falls. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Rails in general; also, material for making rails. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With scoffing or insulting language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ For the several methods of sailing, see under Circular, Globular, Oblique, Parallel, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sailing master (U. S. Navy), formerly, a warrant officer, ranking next below a lieutenant, whose duties were to navigate the vessel; and under the direction of the executive officer, to attend to the stowage of the hold, to the cables, rigging, etc. The grade was merged in that of master in 1862. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sexual intercourse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. (Mining) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Elec.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. & vb. n. from Trail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trailing arbutus. (Bot.) See under Arbutus. --
Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. --
Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aeronautics) A following edge. See Advancing edge, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Ineffective in achieving the desired result; ineffectual; futile; of no use; useless; pointless. [ PJC ]

a. Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure. Dryden. -- Un*fail"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*fail"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]