*lumber*

n. [ Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard. ] 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [ U.S. ] --
Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [ U.S. ] --
Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc. --
dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering. ] 1. To heap together in disorder. “ Stuff lumbered together.” Rymer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To move heavily, as if burdened. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound. ] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.
Syn. -- lumberman, timberman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Zool.) The grey jay. [ Canadian ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Lumbermen One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Maine; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. plombier. See Plumb. ] One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead pipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any worker who installs or repairs piping and related equipment for conveyance of water, gas, or drainage into or out of buildings, or within buildings to fixtures or equipment using water. The type of material used for the conduits varies with the application, and may be may be of lead, iron, copper, glass, palstic, or other material. [ PJC ]

A pillow block. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plomberie. ] 1. The business of a plumber. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. [ 1913 Webster ]

He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Slumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Slumbering. ] [ OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent. ] 1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. “Why slumbers Pope?” Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To lay to sleep. [ R. ] Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stun; to stupefy. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who slumbers; a sleeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a slumbering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without slumber; sleepless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. “Pensive in the slumberous shade.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sleepy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 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 ]