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adj. Capable of being acknowledged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged. [ Narrower terms: given, granted; unquestionable (vs. questionable) ] Also See: known.
Syn. -- accepted, recognized [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. 1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. “An acknowledgment of fault.” Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness; a statement acknowledging something or someone. [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; an expression of thanks. Shak.
Syn. -- recognition [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

4. Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acknowledges. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. Sprawling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aul, awel, al, AS. &aemacr_;l, awel; akin to Icel. alr, OHG. āla, G. ahle, Lith. yla, Skr. ārā. ] A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. “Awless insolence.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inspiring no awe. [ Obs. ] “The awless throne.” Shak. [ Written also aweless ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being awless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Shaped like an awl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Awl + wort. ] (Bot.) A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices or finds sport in batfowling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bat a stick. ] A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bawled (b&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bawling. ] [ Icel. baula to low, bellow, as a cow; akin to Sw. böla; cf. AS bellan, G. bellen to bark, E. bellow, bull. ] 1. To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bawls. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To howl at. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The wolf behowls the moon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burner that produces a hot flame.
Syn. -- blowtorch, torch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Sw. bullra to roar, rattle, Dan. buldre, dial. Sw. bullersteen larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. bellow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. --
Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bolle, AS. bolla; akin to Icel. bolli, Dan. bolle, G. bolle, and perh. to E. boil a tumor. Cf. Boll. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brought them food in bowls of basswood. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. boule, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud. Cf. Bull an edict, Bill a writing. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The game of tenpins or bowling. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bowled p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling. ] 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth,
And bowled to death with turnips&unr_; Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bowl (a player)
out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To play with bowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 2d Bowl. ] A derby hat. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Destitute of a bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quantity contained in a bowl.
Syn. -- bowl. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. D. boelijn, Icel. böglïna&unr_;, Dan. bovline; properly the line attached to the shoulder or side of the sail. See Bow (of a ship), and Line. ] (Naut.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. --
Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. --
On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. --
Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Bowl, a ball, a game. [ 1913 Webster ]

A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brawled p. pr. & vb. n. Brawling. ] [ OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr&unr_;ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. &unr_;95. ] 1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain loudly; to scold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To wrangle; squabble; contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that brawls; wrangler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a brawling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without shame. L. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of claws. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a base shaped like a claw; -- of flower petals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Zool.) A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. cuvele, cuvel, dim. of F. cuve tub, vat, fr. L. cupa. See Cup. ] A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]