n. (Publishing) photographs, illustrations, or other visual representations other than the text, in a printed publication.
adv. [ Pref. a- + two. ] In two; in twain; asunder. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. (Bot.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Chat a little stick + wood. ] Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of
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The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Ironing that can be done mechanically.
n. (Zool.) Any worm belonging to the
n. (Bot.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Worn by, or weared in, the feet;
n. [ 6th fret + work. ] Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]
Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) Same as Frostweed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially,
n. (Bot.) A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum). [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the same order, as species of
n. The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as
n. (Zool.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A network of yarn created by interlacing threads of yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine; knitting.
n. (Bot.) A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus
n. Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) See Sundew. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A tippler. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
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v. i. To take steps to make and cultivate the acquaintance of people who can be helpful to oneself, especially in finding new employment, advancing to a higher position in one's occupation, or exchanging information. [ PJC ]
v. t. To connect together into a network;
n. Interchanging information or services, among a group; -- of persons or organizations. [ PJC ]
adj. having a network of veins or ribs.
v. t. To exceed in woe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To exceed in working; to work more or faster than. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Fort.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To exceed in worth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also
n. (Bot.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. [ 1913 Webster ]
Black saltwort,
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n. Any plant of a sweet taste. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also
a. Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. --
a. [ OE. two, twa, properly fem. & neut., twei, twein, tweien, properly masc. (whence E. twain), AS. twā, fem. & neut., twēgen, masc., tū, neut.; akin to OFries. twēne, masc., twā, fem. & neut., OS. twēne, masc., twā, fem., twē, neut., D. twee, OHG. zwēne, zwō, zwei, G. zwei, Icel. tveir, tvær, tvau, Sw. två, Dan. to, Goth. twai, twōs, twa; Lith. du, Russ. dva, Ir. & Gael. da, W. dau, dwy, L. duo, Gr.
☞ Two is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, consisting of, or having, two parts, divisions, organs, or the like; as two-bladed, two-celled, two-eared, two-flowered, twohand, two-headed, two-horse, two-leafed or two-leaved, two-legged, two-lobed, two-masted, two-named, two-part, two-petaled, two-pronged, two-seeded, two-sided, two-story, two-stringed, two-toothed, two-valved, two-winged, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]
One or two,
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In two,
a. (Bot.) Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular. [ 1913 Webster ]