*gere*

a. Ahungered; longing. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female avenger. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who badgers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being belligerent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.
Syn. -- hostilities. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. an aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. bellum war + gerens, -entis, waging, p. pr. of gerere to wage: cf. F. belligérant. See Bellicose, Jest. ] 1. Waging war; carrying on war. “Belligerent powers.” E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a belligerent manner; hostilely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bergerete, F. berger a shepherd. ] A pastoral song. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
Syn. -- budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.
Syn. -- bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Carrying on war in conjunction with another power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

. [ L. digerens, p. pr. of digerere. See Digest. ] Digesting. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. dogerel. ] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. [ 1913 Webster ]

This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being in a condition or situation where life or serious harm is possible; in danger; at risk. [ PJC ]

2. Small in numbers, with significant possibility of extinction; -- of species. [ PJC ]

n. sing. & pl. A species of plant or animal that has declined in numbers to a point where further irreversible decline and extinction{ 3 } has a significant chance. Lists of endangered species are maintained by government agencies, and in many cases the killing of such species or destruction of their habitat is prohibited by law. In the U. S. in recent years, development of certain tracts of land has been prohibited due to the likelihood that it will cause a reduction in the numbers of an endangered species. In some cases environmental organizations have initiated litigation to cause the courts to rule that a certain development plan is illegal due to a threat to an endangered species. Laws protecting endangered species have become in some cases a contentious political issue. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F., fr. étager to arrange on shelves, fr. étage story, floor. See Stage. ] A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having fingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fingers; a pilferer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gear. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
Syn. -- genus Gerea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. gerens, p. pr. of gerere to bear, manage. ] Bearing; carrying. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slender East African antelope (Litocranius walleri) with a long slim neck and backward-curving horns; called also Waller's gazelle, and in German Giraffengazelle. It feeds on the foliage of bushes and trees, and often stands erect on its hind legs, leaning against the bush, to browse on the higher branches; in this habit it is distinctive and easy to recognize.
Syn. -- Litocranius walleri. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ From the same source as hog; prob. orig., a sheep clipped the first year. See Hog. ] A sheep of the second year. [ Written also hogrel. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hungry; pinched for food. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lingers. Guardian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. malingre sickly, weakly, prob. from mal ill + OF. heingre, haingre, thin, lean, infirm, fr. L. aeger. ] In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman manager. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as light-fingered; thievish; pilfering.
Syn. -- light-fingered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., touch me not. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens. (b) The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not directly at war; as, nonbelligerent nations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A country which is not involved in a war. [ PJC ]

a. Puckered. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A songstress. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a vicegerent. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Vice, a. + gerent: cf. F. vice-gérant. ] Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. C. A. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who wagers, or lays a bet. [ 1913 Webster ]