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n. [ From Dun to ask payment from. ] One employed in soliciting the payment of debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a competitor thought to be most likely to win.
Syn. -- favorite, favourite. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. funel, fonel, prob. through OF. fr, L. fundibulum, infundibulum, funnel, fr. infundere to pour in; in in + fundere to pour; cf. Armor. founil funnel, W. ffynel air hole, chimney. See Fuse, v. t. ] 1. A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids or pourable solids into a vessel with a narrow opening; a tunnel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. --
Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Gunwale. ] 1. A gunwale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Murænoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who works a gun or cannon, whether on land, sea, or in the air; a cannoneer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) The great northern diver or loon. See Loon. (b) The sea bream. [ Prov. Eng. or Irish ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [ Sailor's slang ] W. C. Russell. --
tail gunner (Mil.) A member of the crew of a bomber airplane who operates the defensive gun at the rear of the airplane. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A genus with only one species, the golden cup.
Syn. -- genus Hunnemania. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A soldier who operates a machine gun. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ G. Marcobrunner. ] A celebrated Rhine wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Nunneries [ OE. nonnerie, OF. nonerie, F. nonnerie, fr. nonne nun, L. nonna. See Nun. ] A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An offshoot; a branch. [ R. ] “Some outrunner of the river.” Lauson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that overruns. Lovelace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A punster. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ir. buinne a shoot, branch. ] A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Run. Cf. Rindle. ] A rivulet or small brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bubbling runnels joined the sound. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Run. ] 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A detective. [ Slang, Eng. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A messenger. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A smuggler. [ Colloq. ] R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [ Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Zool.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Zool.) Any cursorial bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Rennet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Cf. Shun. ] To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. [ Prov. Eng. ] (b) The dotterel. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. [ Slang ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A trundle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) See Treenail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tonnelle a semicircular, wagon-headed vault, a tunnel net, an arbor, OF. also tonnel; dim. of tonne a tun; -- so named from its resemblance to a tun in shape. See Ton. ] 1. A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, and a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. [ 1913 Webster ]

And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence
The smoke forth threw. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals, roads, or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. --
Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. --
Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. --
Tunnel pit,
Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tunneled r Tunnelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tunneling or Tunnelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To catch in a tunnel net. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a tunnel; as, to tunnel under a river. [ PJC ]

. A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prep. Not near; not close to; at a distance from. [ Obs. ] Davies (Muse's Sacrifice). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not necessary; not required under the circumstances; unless; needless; as, unnecessary labor, care, or rigor. -- Un*nec"es*sa*ri*ly adv. -- Un*nec"es*sa*ri*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without neigbors. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv. Not in a neighborly manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enervate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + nerve. ] To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unequal match'd, . . .
The unnerved father falls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + nest. ] To eject from a nest; to unnestle. [ R. ] T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + nestle. ] Same as Unnest. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. With difficulty. See Uneath. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]