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n. The quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold.
Syn. -- barrel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the capital of Northern Ireland; -- the center of Irish Protestantism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. berfray movable tower used in sieges, OF. berfreit, berfroit, F. beffroi, fr. MHG. bervrit, bercvrit, G. bergfriede, fr. MHG. bergen to protect (G. bergen to conceal) + vride peace, protection, G. friede peace; in compounds often taken in the sense of security, or place of security; orig. therefore a place affording security. G. friede is akin to E. free. See Burg, and Free. ] 1. (Mil. Antiq.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) The framing on which a bell is suspended. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bookshelves A shelf to hold books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs.
Syn. -- demoiselle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. delf a delving, digging. See Delve. ] A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [ Written also delft, and delve. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Delftware. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Delftware. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence: (b) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. performed or made by an end-user who is without professional training in the relevant techniques; as, their house was a do-it-yourself project. Contrasted with factory-made and professional. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a person who often makes objects typically made by professionals, or performs repairs typically performed by professionals, though not having professional training in the relevant art. The term is used mostly to refer to activities related to maintaining a home. [ PJC ]

n. [ Eel + fare a journey or passage. ] (Zoöl.) A brood of eels. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Elves [ AS. ælf, ylf; akin to MHG. alp, G. alp nightmare, incubus, Icel. ālfr elf, Sw. alf, elfva; cf. Skr. &rsdot_;bhu skillful, artful, rabh to grasp. Cf. Auf, Oaf. ] 1. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every elf, and fairy sprite,
Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elf arrow, a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. --
Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. --
Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. --
Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elf all my hair in knots. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to elves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little elf or urchin. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. “Elfish light.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an elfish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being elfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little elf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fairyland. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ It. Guelfo, from Welf, the name of a German family. ] (Hist.) One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, pron. pl. [ See Hem, pron. ] Themselves; -- used reflexively. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. 1. An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself. [ 1913 Webster ]

By herself, alone; apart; unaccompanied. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. 1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

David hid himself in the field. 1 Sam. xx. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord himself shall give you a sign. Is. vii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

With shame remembers, while himself was one
Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him. [ 1913 Webster ]

It comprehendeth in himself all good. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. --
To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.

/mhw>, (&unr_;), pron. pl. Themselves. See Hemself. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. The neuter reflexive pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Keel to cool + fat a large tub, a vat. ] (Brewing) A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [ Written also keelvat. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The shelf of a mantel. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron.; pl. Ourselves I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is not oneself. [ PJC ]

2. (Immunology) Any material that enters the body and is not recognized by the immune system as being part of its body, thereby triggering an immune response; any material appearing to the immune system to be foreign to its body. [ PJC ]

n. (Metaph.) The negative of self. “A cognizance of notself.” Sir. W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Made in large quantities and intended to be used without modifications; -- similar to off-the-rack, but not restricted to clothing. Opposite of custom-made, made-to-order, or one-of-a-kind. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

pron. A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly written as two words, one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self = one's self. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pelfir booty, OF. pelfre, akin to pelfrer to plunder, and perh. to E. pillage. Cf. Pilfer. ] Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. “Mucky pelf.” Spenser. “Paltry pelf.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry? Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to pelf. Stanyhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [ Obs. ] Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. self, seolf, sylf; akin to OS. self, OFries. self, D. zelf, G. selb, selber, selbst, Dan. selv. Sw. sjelf, Icel. sjālfr, Goth. silba. Cf. Selvage. ] 1. Same; particular; very; identical. [ Obs., except in the compound selfsame. ] “On these self hills.” Sir. W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Selves 1. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. “Those who liked their real selves.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personification; embodiment. [ Poetic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She was beauty's self. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. “Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.” John iv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lowering or humbling one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abhorrence of one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]