I will take my word again, i. e. I will retract what I have said : I have changed my mind. Durham.
·noun Verbal contention; dispute. II. Word ·noun Signal; order; command; direction. III. Word ·nou...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The watch-word; the parole and countersign, which, being issued to the authorized persons at guard-m...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later a...
·noun One who cavils at words. ...
Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a p...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John ...
A fine or affected word, which sailors jeeringly offer to chalk up on the binnacle. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A bye-word, proverb. ...
Verbal critics, and also persons who use hard words in common discourse. ...
A punster, one who plays upon words. ...
The old term for the watch-word, parole, or countersign. ...
The countersign for answering the sentinels. ...
(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God's organs in...
To drink by word of mouth, i.e. out of the bowl or bottle instead, of a glass. ...