n. The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. acknowledged p. pr. & vb. n. acknowledging ] [ Prob. fr. pref. a- + the verb knowledge. See Knowledge, and cf. Acknow. ] 1. To own or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. [ 1913 Webster ]

I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all thy ways acknowledge Him. Prov. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

They his gifts acknowledged none. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To avow; proclaim; recognize; own; admit; allow; concede; confess. -- Acknowledge, Recognize. Acknowledge is opposed to keep back, or conceal, and supposes that something had been previously known to us (though perhaps not to others) which we now feel bound to lay open or make public. Thus, a man acknowledges a secret marriage; one who has done wrong acknowledges his fault; and author acknowledges his obligation to those who have aided him; we acknowledge our ignorance. Recognize supposes that we have either forgotten or not had the evidence of a thing distinctly before our minds, but that now we know it (as it were) anew, or receive and admit in on the ground of the evidence it brings. Thus, we recognize a friend after a long absence. We recognize facts, principles, truths, etc., when their evidence is brought up fresh to the mind; as, bad men usually recognize the providence of God in seasons of danger. A foreign minister, consul, or agent, of any kind, is recognized on the ground of his producing satisfactory credentials. See also Confess. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Capable of being acknowledged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged. [ Narrower terms: given, granted; unquestionable (vs. questionable) ] Also See: known.
Syn. -- accepted, recognized [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. 1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. “An acknowledgment of fault.” Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness; a statement acknowledging something or someone. [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; an expression of thanks. Shak.
Syn. -- recognition [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

4. Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acknowledges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; anything cup-shaped. See Cotyledon. ] (Bot.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an aisle or aisles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Allege. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This spelling, corresponding to abridge, was once the prevailing one. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Syn. -- aghast(predicate), dismayed, shocked. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. 1 wearing clothes. the elegantly appareled gentleman
Syn. -- attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, a. [ Cf. NL. arillatus, F. arillé. ] Having an aril. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. brought together into a group or crowd. the assembled letters in my office
Syn. -- accumulated, collected, congregate, massed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 formed by fitting or joining components together.
Syn. -- built(prenominal), made-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having an axle; -- used in composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Merlin's agate-axled car. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not understanding.
Syn. -- uncomprehending. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. discouraged by failure to accomplish a goal and uncertain how to proceed; -- used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.
Syn. -- balked, discomfited, discouraged, frustrated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. prenom. formed or gathered into a ball. balled cotton [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. covered with barnacles. the barnacled hull of a wrecked ship [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. 1. Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. put in or stored in a barrel; ; as, barreled beer; -- opposite of unbarreled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. tapered toward both ends; -- of an arrow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or }, a. Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Embattled. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Embattled. [ Poetic ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. batyldour. A corrupted form of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. batuere. See Battle, n. ] 1. An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. [ Also spelled battledore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ OE. battleder. ] A child's hornbook. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as battledoor.
Syn. -- battledore and shuttlecock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. made disgustingly dirty. a building befouled with soot [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. dazed by alcoholic drink. the wino's poor befuddled mind
Syn. -- stupefied. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. unclear in mind or intent; filled with bewilderment.
Syn. -- at sea, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. confused and vague; used especially of thinking.
Syn. -- addled, befogged, muddled, muzzy, unclear, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. filled with wonder and delight.
Syn. -- captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Hung with a bell or bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
Syn. -- beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. 1. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Her.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + stipule. ] (Bot.) Having two stipules. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Bleed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The long wagon body set on bobsleds. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a long racing sled (for 2 or more people), having two pairs of runners, with the front pair connected to a steering mechanism. They are usually raced one at a time down a steeply sloping path or specially constructed chute, with sharp banked curves, and attain high speeds.
Syn. -- bobsled. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. expressing the essence; condensed; summarized. the final boiled-down crux of the matter
Syn. -- boiled down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also bowelled. ] Having bowels; hollow. “The boweled cavern.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overgrown with brambles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ A dim. form of brinded. ] Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. “With a brindled lion played.” Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. cooked by direct exposure to radiant heat. baked fried bolied
Syn. -- grilled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]