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n. The employment of selling books. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. --
Dwelling place, place of residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a., n }. See Elenge, Elengeness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.
Syn. -- discharge, emission. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. emitting an unpleasasnt odor.
Syn. -- fetid, foul, funky, noisome, smelly, putrid, stinking. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

or , n. 1. The act of covering with gravel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).

or , n. (Zool.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

, a. Lying prone; low; debased; submissive in a self-abasing manner. “A groveling creature.” Cowper.
Syn. -- cringing, wormlike, wormy. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign.
Syn. -- arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, exhausting, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. “Heartswelling hate.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inflated; boastful. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Keeping at home. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Residence within, as in the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Lölling, in Austria. ] (Min.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wrong spelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who smells. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

. An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to spelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spelling bee, a spelling match. [ U.S. ] --
Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. --
Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n. The act or practice of telling stories. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially (Med.), an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

. [ After the Duke of Wellington. ] A riding boot for men, the front of which came above the knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ NL. So named after the Duke of Wellington. ] (Bot.) A name given to the “big trees” (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ After the Duke of Wellington. ] A kind of long boots for men. [ 1913 Webster ]