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v. t. [ Pref. ad- + freight: cf. F. affréter. See Freight. ] To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. affrétement. ] The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affrighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Affrighting. ] [ Orig. p. p.; OE. afright, AS. āfyrhtan to terrify; ā- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + fyrhto fright. See Fright. ] To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dreams affright our souls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drear and dying sound
Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To terrify; frighten; alarm; dismay; appall; scare; startle; daunt; intimidate. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Affrighted. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. [ 1913 Webster ]

He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With fright. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To frighten. [ Archaic ] “Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who frightens. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth. [1913 Webster]

n. Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + height. ] Aloft; on high. [ Obs. ] “Look up aheight.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. So tight as to be impermeable to air or other gases; as, an air-tight cylinder; -- said of containers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. of such close construction as to have little leakage of air in or out; -- said of structures [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. so thoroughly convincing as to be insusceptible to doubt; having no apparent counterarguments; -- of arguments or assertions an airtight alibi an airtight argument
Syn. -- airtight, uncontradictable, undeniable. [ PJC ]

n. A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pot companion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Alighted ometimes Alit p. pr. & vb. n. Alighting. ] [ OE. alihten, fr. AS. ālīhtan; pref. ā- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + līhtan, to alight, orig. to render light, to remove a burden from, fr. līht, leoht, light. See Light, v. i. ] 1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come or chance (upon). [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + light. ] Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. “The lamps were alight.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

pred. adj. 1. satisfactory; better than average; as, everything is all right.
Syn. -- all-right(predicate), ok, o.k., okay. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. prenom. 1. satisfactory; better than average. an all-right movie
Syn. -- all right(predicate), ok, o.k., okay [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. All-powerful; almighty. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With almighty power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. ealmihtig, ælmihtig; eal (OE. al) all + mihtig mighty. ] 1. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Great; extreme; terrible. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Almighty, the omnipotent God. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Naut.) The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } adv. [ OE. on niht. ] In the night time; at night. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Does he hawk anights still? Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) The light of an arc lamp. See arc lamp under lamp. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + right. ] Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (Eccl. Hist.) (a) A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century. (b) Same as Burgher, n., 2. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Back, adv. + sight. ] (Surv.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ p. p. Bedight, Bedighted. ] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [ Archaic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Bed + right, rite. ] The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten. ] [ OE. bihaten, AS. behātan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hātan to call, command. See Hight, v. ] [ Obs. in all its senses. ] 1. To promise; to vow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. [ 1913 Webster ]

The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To adjudge; to assign by authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mean, or intend. [ 1913 Webster ]

More than heart behighteth. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To call; to name; to address. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To command; to order. [ 1913 Webster ]

He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vow; a promise. [ Obs. ] Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To illuminate. [ Obs. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blessed. [ R. ] Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Benighting. ] 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The clouds benight the sky. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny ? Heber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being benighted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bi&yogh_;t a bending; cf. Sw. & Dan. bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. byht, fr. būgan. √88. Cf. Bout, Bought a bend, and see Bow, v. ] 1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geog.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. [ 1913 Webster ]

The angelic song in Bethlehem field,
On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blighting. ] [ Perh. contr. from AS. blīcettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The meaning “to blight” comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf. Bleach, Bleak. ] 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ This vapor ] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seared in heart and lone and blighted. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing blight. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to cause blight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing. [ 1913 Webster ]