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n. (Publishing) photographs, illustrations, or other visual representations other than the text, in a printed publication.
Syn. -- art, graphics, nontextual matter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ OE. atwaine, atwinne; pref. a- + twain. ] In twain; asunder. [ Obs. or Poetic ] “Cuts atwain the knots.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. or prep. [ See Atwain, and cf. Between. ] Between. [ Archaic ] Spenser. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. [ Pref. a- + twist. ] Twisted; distorted; awry. [ R. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. attwyten, AS. ætwītan. See Twit. ] To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Betwixt. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + two. ] In two; in twain; asunder. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ r }, a. Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betweónan, betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twā two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt. ] 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. [ 1913 Webster ]

If things should go so between them. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both. [ 1913 Webster ]

Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. --
Between ourselves,
Between you and me,
Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Between, Among. Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation. I . . . hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ] Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intermediate time or space; interval. [ Poetic & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ OE. betwix, bitwix, rarely bitwixt, AS. betweox, betweohs, betweoh, betwīh; pref. be- by + a form fr. AS. twā two. See Between. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In the space which separates; between. [ 1913 Webster ]

From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From one to another of; mutually affecting. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was some speech of marriage
Betwixt myself and her. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a European deciduous shrub (Cornus sanguinea) turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.
Syn. -- common European dogwood, red dogwood, pedwood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Boatwomen A woman who manages a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ ‖, n. [ Skr. bōdhisattva (perh. through Pali bōdhisattō); fr. bōdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence. ] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ German. ] a small pork sausage seasoned with spices and herbs, and usually served broiled or sauteed. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. Bretwalda, br&unr_;ten walda, a powerful ruler. ] (Eng. Hist.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unite by a butt weld. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Agric.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A way or road for carts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the type of wheel used on a cart; it typically has wooden spokes and a metal rim. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an acrobatic maneuver in which the arms and legs are outstretched like the spokes of a wheel, and the body is turned sideways through one or more revolutions, by first touching the hands and then the feet to the ground, in rapid succession so as to mimic the rolling of a wheel; in the course of this feat, the person performing it is alternately upright and upside-down. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. a silver dollar; a dollar made of silver. [ Colloq. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. 1 to perform a cartwheel{ 2 }.
Syn. -- do cartwheels. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cart + wright. ] An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A narrow walkway projecting from a stage into the seating area of a theater; it is used, e. g. by models displaying clothes on it at a fashion show. Called also runway. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. A narrow walkway high in the air to allow workers access to parts of a structure otherwise difficult to reach. Catwalks are located, e.g. above a stage in a theater, between parts of a building, along the side of a bridge, on the outside of a railroad car, on the outside of a large storage tank, etc. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Chat a little stick + wood. ] Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Clote. ] Cocklebur. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. By way of, or along, the coast; following a coastline; as, coastwise winds contributed to the storm. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having an acceptable credit rating; worthy of having credit extended; as, a credit-worthy customer.
Syn. -- responsible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In the form of a crescent; like a crescent. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Per. kotwāl. ] The chief police officer of a large city. [ East Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) 1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer. [ 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 Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence: (b) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) Same as Drift, 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Wood drifted or floated by water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. [ 1913 Webster ]

The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + twine. Cf. Intwine. ] To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [ Written also intwine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be twisted or twined. [ 1913 Webster ]

With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [ Archaic ]