n. A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chop to barter. ] (Old Eng. Law) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cart that can be tilted to empty the contents without handling them.
Syn. -- tumbrel, tumbril. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who performs jazz music. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

2. A person who is hep or hip; same as hipster; -- an older term becoming dated and less used. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

(Photog.) A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble. [ Obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Computers) A personal computer; a computer{ 2 } designed for use by one person at a time; -- contrasted with shared-time computers such as mainframes and minicomputers, which may be accessed by multiple users each operating from a different input device (in the 1990's, usually a terminal). A personal computer typically uses a microprocessor for its CPU. [ Initialism ]
Syn. -- personal computer, microcomputer. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

pos>a. An initialism for politically correct. [ Initialism ]
Syn. -- P. C., politically correct. [ PJC ]

n. A drug originally taken in the form of powder ("dust") for its hallucinogenic effects.
Syn. -- phencyclidine hydrochloride, angel dust. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Abbreviation of percent. ] Percent; a fractional proportion, multiplied by 100. [ abbreviation ]
Syn. -- percentage, percent, per cent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

, n. See pop corn under pop, n.. [ PJC ]

{ } n. A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A suspicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soupçon of brandy; a soupçon of coquetry. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ AS. steópcild. ] 1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An outer coat; an overcoat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cast or throw up; to turn upward. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An upset, as from a carriage. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A taunt; a reproach. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Seized or caught up. “ She bears upcaught a mariner away.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cheer up. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To climb up; to ascend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence. [ Colloq. ] -- n. The interior of the country. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To curl up. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes. [ 1913 Webster ]