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‖n. [ G.; an on + laut sound. ] (Phon.) An initial sound, as of a word or syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

--
Im anlaut, initially; when initial; -- used of sounds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ G. kronland. ] In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + lard: cf. OF. enlarder to put on the spit, Pr. & Sp. enlardar to rub with grease, baste. ] To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enlarged p. pr. & vb. n. Enlarging ] [ OF. enlargier; pref. en- (L. in) + F. large wide. See Large. ] 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

O ye Corinthians, our . . . heart is enlarged. 2 Cor. vi. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set at large or set free. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It will enlarge us from all restraints. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. --
To enlarge an order or
To enlarge a rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. --
To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. “They enlarged themselves on this subject.” Clarendon. --
To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

Syn. -- To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See Increase. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enlarge upon this theme. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give enlargement to the swain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who or that which enlarges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Photography) an optical device for making copies of photographs larger than the original, having a head for holding the original, a source of illumination to project the image, and a bed for holding the sensitized photographic paper which will received the larger image. [ PJC ]

v. t. See Inlay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Finland. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. An island situated between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the largest island in the world; it is a Danish territory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A native of Greenland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inlaced p. pr. & vb. n. Inlacing ] [ Pref. in- + lace: cf. OE. enlacen to entangle, involve, OF. enlacier, F. enlacer. See Lace, and cf. Enlace. ] To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Law L. inlagatio, fr. inlagare to restore to law. See In, and Law. ] (Old Eng. Law) The restitution of an outlawed person to the protection of the law; inlawing. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Inlay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The interior part of a country. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. “This wide inland sea.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inland. [ Obs. ] T. Reeve(1657) [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. in- in + L. lapis, lapidis, stone. ] To convert into a stony substance; to petrify. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Enlard. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ In + law. Cf. Inlagation. ] (Old Eng. Law) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law. Burrill.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inlaied p. pr. & vb. n. Inlaying. ] To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, ivory, mother-of-pearl, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look, how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety; as, ornamented with ivory inlay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crocus and hyacinth with rich inlay
Broidered the ground. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sloping of the moonlit sward
Was damask work, and deep inlay
Of braided blooms. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The People's Republic of China, also called Communist China, in distinction from Nationalist China, the government located on the island of Taiwan. Both governments claim to represent the entire people of China, but the People's republic is recognized as China by the United Nationss and most of its member states.
Syn. -- Red China, PRC, Beijing. [ PJC ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not produced by labor or toil. “Unlabored harvests.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + lace. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To loose the dress of; to undress; hence, to expose; to disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

What's the matter,
That you unlace your reputation thus? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + lade. ] 1. To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The venturous merchant . . .
Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unload; to remove, or to have removed, as a load or a burden; to discharge. [ 1913 Webster ]

There the ship was to unlade her burden. Acts. xxi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not laid or placed; not fixed. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest. [ R. ] “Stubborn, unlaid ghost.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not laid out, as a corpse. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unlaid paper. See Laid paper, under Laid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + land. ] To deprive of lands. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + lap. ] To unfold. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + lash. ] (Naut.) To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Unlatched p. pr. & vb. n. Unlatching. ] [ 1st un- + latch. ] To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + laugh. ] To recall, as former laughter. [ Obs. & R. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + law. ] 1. To deprive of the authority or character of law. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put beyond protection of law; to outlaw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Scots Law) To impose a fine upon; to fine. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ Pref. un- + law. ] (Scots Law) (a) Any transgression or offense against the law. (b) A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- + lawed, p. p. of lawe. ] Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unlawful assembly. (Law) See under Assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not according to law; being or done in violation of law; unlawful. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + lay. ] (Naut.) To untwist; as, to unlay a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
See namable.
See native.
See navigable.
See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
See objectionable.
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