This consisted generally of going to the buttery for beer and bread and cheese (for the great men did not sup with the rest, but had each his own allowance in his study or the fifth-form room), cleaning candlesticks and putting in new candles, toasting cheese, bottling beer, and carrying messages about the house; and Tom, in the first blush of his hero-worship, felt it a high privilege to receive orders from and be the bearer of the supper of old Brooke.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

V. defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison[obs3]; fend round &c. (circumscribe) 229; fence, entrench, intrench[obs3]; guard &c. (keep safe) 664; guard against; take care of &c. (vigilance) 459; bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back; hinder &c. 706.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

wherefrom, whence Cwb, n. a concavity; a cote Cwbl, n. a whole, a total Cwblhâd, n. fulfilling Cwblhâu, v. to fulfill, to finish Cwbledd, n. entireness Cwblhawr, n. finisher Cwcwll, n. a hood, a cowl Cwch, n. a boat, a hive Cwd, n. an injection or throw: n. a bag or pouch Cweryl, n. strife, quarrel Cweryliad, n. a quarelling Cwerylu, v. to quarrel Cwestiwn, n. a question Cwfl, n. a hood, a cowl Cwg, n. a rise; a jet; a knob Cwgyn, n. a knot; a knuckle Cwhwfan, n. a waving; a. waving; panting Cwhwfanu, v. to wave: to pant Cwl, n. a flagging; a fault; a box for raising coals Cwla, a. faulting; languid Cwlas, n. an apartment Cwlbren, n. a bludgeon Cwliaw, v. to make faulty Cwlwm, n. a knot, a tie Cwlltr, n. a coulter Cwm, n. a hollow, a dingle Cwman, n. a kive; a rump Cwmarch, n. a deep dingle Cwmwd, n. a wapentake Cwmpas, n. a compass Cwmpasol, a. compassing Cwmpasu, v. to compass Cwmwl, n. a cloud Cwn, n. a top, a summit Cŵn, n. dogs Cwnawl, a. rising, elevating Cwningen, n. a rabbit Cwnu, v. to arise; to support Cwpan, n. a cup, a bowl Cwpanaid, n. a cup-full Cwpl, n. a coupling, a couple Cwr, n. a limit; a corner; a circle, a skin Crwcwd, n. a stooping; a squating Cwrn, n. a spire; a pile Cwrnaid, n. a curveting Cwrt, n. a mound; a court Cwrw, n. ale, strong beer Cwrwgl, n. a coracle; a boat Cwsg, n. sleep Cwsgbar, a. causing sleep Cwt, n. a roundness; a cot; a stye; a rump, a skirt Cwta, a. short; abrupt Cwtâu, v. to shorten, to curtail Cwtiad, n. a plover; a coot Cwtiar, n. a coot, a water rail Cwtog, a. bob-tailed, squabby; n. a squab, a scut Cwtoges, n. a short squab Cwtogi, v. to shorten, to curtail Cwtogiad, n. a curtailing Cwtws, n. a lot; a scut Cwtyn, n. a bob-tail; a plover Cwtysyn, n. a lot, a ticket Cwthr, n. the rectum Cwyd, n. a stir, an agitation Cwymp, n. a fall, a tumble Cwympiad, n. a falling Cwympo, v. to fall; to cast down Cwympol, a. falling; declining Cympwr, n. one that falls Cwyn, n. plant, complaint Cwynfan, n. lamentation; v. to complain Cwynfanus, a. complaining Cwyniad, n. a complaining Cwyno, v. to complain Cwynofain, v. to bewail Cwynofaint, n. a wailing Cwynol, a. complaining Cwynos, n. a supper Cwynosa, v. to eat supper Cwynwr, n. a complainer Cwŷr, n. wax, gum Cwyreli, n. cerat; salve Cwyren, n. a cake of wax Cwyriad, n. a waxing Cwyro, v. to cover with wax Cwyros, a. of waxy quality Cwyrol, n. a cornel tree Cwys, n. a furrow Cwysed, n. a gore, a gusset Cwysiad, n. a furrowing Cwysig, n. a small furrow Cwyso, v. to furrow Cwysol, a. furrowing Cy, a. prefix used to denote a mutual act or effect Cybol, a. holding, grasping Cyboli, v. to blend, to mix Cyboliad, n. a blending Cybolwr, n. a mingler Cybydd, n. a miser, a niggard Cybyddol, a. coveting, greedy Cybydd-dod, n. avarice Cybyddes, n. a female miser Cybyddiad, n. a coveting Cybyddiaeth, n. covetousness Cybyddu, v. to act miserly Cycyllog, a. hooded, cowled Cycyllu, v. to wear a hood Cychaid, n. a boat-full, a hive-full Cychawl, a. boat-like; hive-like Cychedd, n. a concavity Cychiad, n. a covering; a hiving Cychu, v. to cover; to hive Cydfradu, v. to conspire Cydfradwr, n. a conspirator Cydfradwriaeth, n. a conspiracy Cydfwriad, n. combination Cydfwyta, v. to eat together Cychwyfan, v. to hover; to rock Cychwyn, n. stir, a move Cychwyniad, n. a commencement; a setting off Cyd, n. a junction; a coupling, used as a prefix to denote a mutual act Cyd, a. joint, united, common: ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

unarodscipe f. remissness, cowardice , CP 149 15 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

1, 6, 19); reppulī , I pushed back , and rettulī , I carried back , stand for *répepulī and *rétetulī ( 861 ); pergō , I proceed , stands for *perregō from regō (cf. cor-rigō , ē-rigō , where the e is weakened, 103 , and porrigō , porgō , where it is either weakened or lost), hence it forms its perfect perrēxī ( 953 ): pōnō , I place , is for *posnō ( 170, 2 ) from *po-sinō ( 112 ), hence it forms its past participle positus ( 972 ); for iūrgō , I blame .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

ANT: Plump, short, full, rounded, crisp, curled.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Owensboro' or Henderson.-Thirty-first Indiana, Colonel Cruft; Colonel Edwards, forming Rock Castle; Colonel Boyle, Harrodsburg; Colonel Barney, Irvine; Colonel Hazzard, Burksville; Colonel Haskins, Somerset.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

V. be safe &c. Adj.; keep one's head above water, tide over, save one's bacon; ride out the storm, weather the storm; light upon one's feet, land on one's feet; bear a charmed life; escape &c. 671. make safe, render safe &c. Adj.; protect; take care of &c. (care) 459; preserve &c. 670; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard &c. (defend) 717; secure &c. (restrain) 751; entrench, intrench[obs3], fence round &c. (circumscribe) 229; house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of. escort, convoy; garrison; watch, mount guard, patrol.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

In about five minutes another screen door opened and he appeared in a gorgeous but simple flowing robe, copper colored.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

No dinky little ole forest ranger can come cantelopin' round here tellin' me my business!"
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Thou first rung, Clio, celebrate my name; 2.
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

It would be inexpedient, for reasons closely connected with the tobacconist of the Rue St. Gingolphe, as well as with other gentlemen still happily with us in the flesh, to be too exact as to dates.
— from The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman

Suriname National Army (including small Navy and Air Force elements), Civil Police Swaziland Umbutfo Swaziland Defense Force (Army), Royal Swaziland Police Force Sweden Army, Royal Navy (including Coast Artillery and Naval Helicopter Service), Air Force Switzerland Army, Air Force, Frontier Guards, Fortification Guards Syria Syrian Arab Army, Syrian Arab Navy, Syrian Arab Air Force (includes Air Defense Forces), Police and Security Force Taiwan Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, Coast Guard Administration, Armed Forces Reserve Command, Combined Service Forces Command Tajikistan Army, Air Force and Air Defense Force, Presidential National Guard, Security Forces (internal and border troops)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The beauty of its situation on the banks of La Belle Rivière , just at the commencement of the famed rapids, commonly called the Falls of the Ohio, had attracted my notice, and when I removed to it, immediately after my marriage, I found it more agreeable than ever.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

For royal commissions concern themselves with our trade, with copyright law, with the restrictions of the paper supply.
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

[Carlos FERRO Solanilla] note: Colombia has 15 formally recognized political parties, and numerous unofficial parties that did not meet the vote threshold in the March 2006 legislative elections required for recognition Comoros Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros or CRC [AZALI Assowmani]; Camp of the Autonomous Islands or CdIA (a coalition of parties organized by the islands' presidents in opposition to the Union President); Front National pour la Justice or FNJ [Ahmed RACHID]
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Such a color score, or notation diagram, to be made small or large as the case demands, offers a very convenient means for recording color combinations, when pigments are not at hand.
— from A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell