n. any type of strongly alcoholic beverage prepared by distillation of an alcohol-containing fermented material. [ PJC ]

n. A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as blewit.
Syn. -- blewit, Tricholoma personatum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the people of Great Britain. [ informal ]
Syn. -- British, British people, the British. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. (Min.) The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. (Geol.) See Grit, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

poss. pron. Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. The neuter reflexive pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. very small; tiny.
Syn. -- bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

It was an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini
that she wore for the first time today. Song lyrics [ PJC ]

{ ‖ . n. [ Jap. jūjutsu; jū soft (prob. because no weapons are used) + jutsu art. ] The Japanese art of self-defense without weapons, now widely used as a system of physical training. It depends for its efficiency largely upon the principle of making clever use of an opponent's strength, weight, and movements to disable or injure him, and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance, dislocate or break a joint, etc. It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Jap., soft technique. ] a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength.
Syn. -- jujitsu, jiujutsu, jujutsu. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. same as jujutsu. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ Prob. same word as nit a louse's egg. ] (Mining) Small particles of ore. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who knits. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. barred to a designated group; as, the topless bar is off-lints to military personnel.
Syn. -- out-of-bounds(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

interj. See the Note under Quit, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spitchcocked. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) (a) A sail extended by a sprit. (b) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The worst possible situation, person, or thing; something extremely bad, boring, or depressing; -- always used with the; as, cleaning the house is the pits. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Written also theesee, and thietsie. ] 1. (Bot.) The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A black varnish obtained from the tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Russ. tsaritsa. Cf. Czarina. ] The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch. ] (Bot.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Whitsun. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ White + sour. ] (Bot.) A sort of apple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contracted fr. whitester. ] A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whitsters in Datchet mead. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ White + Sunday. ] 1. (Eccl.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) See the Note under Term, n., 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Whitsunday + tide. ] The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost. R. of Gloucester. [ 1913 Webster ]