v. t. [ OE. apechen, for empechen, OF. empeechier, F. empêcher, to hinder. See Impeach. ] To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An accuser. [ Obs. ] Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Accusation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Beaches [ Cf. Sw. backe hill, Dan. bakke, Icel. bakki hill, bank. Cf. Bank. ] 1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beach flea (Zool.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. --
Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. --
Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats. --
Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beached p. pr. & vb. n. Beaching. ] To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

. [ Written also beach-comber or beach comber. ] (Naut.) 1. A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a Scotchman who was a beach-comber. F. T. Bullen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a vagrant living on a beach. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a person who searches along a beach for objects of value, such as lost objects or seashells. [ PJC ]

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [ Amer., archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

p. p. & a. 1. Bordered by a beach. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an area in hostile territory that has been occupied and is held to allow aditional troops and supplies to enter.
Syn. -- bridgehead, foothold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; -- of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of cliffy. [ Narrower terms: gravelly, pebbly, shingly ]
Syn. -- beachy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. clothing to be worn at a beach. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bleached p. pr. & vb. n. Bleaching. ] [ OE. blakien, blechen, v. t. & v. i., AS. blācian, bl&unr_;can, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw. bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. blāc pale. See Bleak, a. ] To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. [ 1913 Webster ]

The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Immortal liberty, whose look sublime
Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow white or lose color; to whiten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Whitened; make white. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain,
Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bleacheries A place or an establishment where bleaching is done. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pain in the bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to Dan. bræk, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break ] . 1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. 2 Sam. v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. --
A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's fallen between him and my lord
An unkind breach. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A bruise; a wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breach for breach, eye for eye. Lev. xxiv. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) A hernia; a rupture. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A breaking out upon; an assault. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. 1. Chron. xiii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. --
Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. --
Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry. --
Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Rent; cleft; chasm; rift; aperture; gap; break; disruption; fracture; rupture; infraction; infringement; violation; quarrel; dispute; contention; difference; misunderstanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Breached p. pr. & vb. n. Breaching. ] To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico. ] Logwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dépêcher. See Dispatch. ] To discharge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. or a. pron. [ OE. eche, ælc, elk, ilk, AS. ælc; ā always + gelīc like; akin to OD. iegelik, OHG. ēogilīh, MHG. iegelīch, G. jeglich. √209. See 3d Aye, Like, and cf. Either, Every, Ilk. ] 1. Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. “Each of the combatants.” Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ To each corresponds other. “Let each esteem other better than himself.” Each other, used elliptically for each the other. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty, each to assist the other, each being in the nominative and other in the objective case. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let each
His adamantine coat gird well. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In each cheek appears a pretty dimple. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then draw we nearer day by day,
Each to his brethren, all to God. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

The oak and the elm have each a distinct character. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know each lane and every alley green. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In short each man's happiness depends upon himself. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English. Fitzed. Hall.

Syn. -- See Every. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Everywhere. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Earshot. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To hinder. See Impeach. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. “A seat in eyereach of him.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a wide range or effect; as, far-reaching (or extensive) forests; a far-reaching reform.
Syn. -- extensive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. (Naut.) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Naut.) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. R. H. Dana, Jr. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To teach beforehand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impeached p. pr. & vb. n. Impeaching. ] [ OE. empeechier to prevent, hinder, bar, F. empêcher, L. impedicare to entangle; pref. im- in + pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and Appeach, Dispatch, Impede. ] 1. To hinder; to impede; to prevent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgment of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

And doth impeach the freedom of the state. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when used in reference to the credit of witness, the term denotes, to impair, to lessen, to disparage, to destroy. The credit of a witness may be impeached by showing that he has made statements out of court contradictory to what he swears at the trial, or by showing that his reputation for veracity is bad, etc.

Syn. -- To accuse; arraign; censure; criminate; indict; impair; disparage; discredit. See Accuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hindrance; impeachment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who impeaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. empêchement. ] The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as: (a) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Willing to march on to Calais,
Without impeachment. Shak.

(b) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state. Swift.

(c) A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, it is the privilege or right of the House of Commons to impeach, and the right of the House of Lords to try and determine impeachments. In the United States, it is the right of the House of Representatives to impeach, and of the Senate to try and determine impeachments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Articles of impeachment. See under Article. --
Impeachment of waste (Law), restraint from, or accountability for, injury; also, a suit for damages for injury. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pleach; to interweave. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) See 3d Leech. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also letch. ] [ Cf. As. leáh lye, G. lauge. See Lye. ] 1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Leached p. pr. & vb. n. Leaching. ] [ Written also leech and letch. ] 1. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To part with soluble constituents by percolation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Leech, a physician. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To skulk; to cower. See Mich. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mistaught p. pr. & vb. n. Misteaching. ] [ AS. mist&aemacr_;can. ] To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]