*ebb*

a. Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.
Syn. -- blebbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in cobwebs. “The cobwebbed cottage.” Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low. [ 1913 Webster ]

The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) The European bunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ebba; akin to Fries. ebba, D. eb, ebbe, Dan. & G. ebbe, Sw. ebb, cf. Goth. ibuks backward; prob. akin to E. even. ] 1. The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay. “Our ebb of life.” Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painting was then at its lowest ebb. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ebb and flow, the alternate ebb and flood of the tide; often used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial. A. T. Hadley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Ebbed p. pr. & vb. n. Ebbing. ] [ AS. ebbian; akin to D. & G. ebben, Dan. ebbe. See 2d Ebb. ] 1. To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow. [ 1913 Webster ]

That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hours of life ebb fast. Blackmore.

Syn. -- To recede; retire; withdraw; decay; decrease; wane; sink; lower. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to flow back. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Yiddish, nebekh poor, unfortunate. ] A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. papolstān; cf. L. papula pimple, mote. See Stone. ] 1. A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. “The pebbles on the hungry beach.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains. --
Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pebbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pebbling. ] To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in pebbles. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. “Chains of pebblestone.” Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of pebbles; pebbled. “A hard, pebbly bottom.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Provided with a web. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]