a. That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Naut.) A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making a harsh noise; blaring. “Braying trumpets.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.
Syn. -- blustery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ }. The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of buying; as, buying equipment for the trip took several hours.
Syn. -- purchasing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or business of transporting from one place to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carrying place, a carry; a portage. --
Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. pr. p. of comply. [ Narrower terms: compliant (vs. defiant) ]
Syn. -- obliging, yielding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of transferring a property title from one person to another.
Syn. -- conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & n. From Copy, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copying ink. See under Ink. --
Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. --
Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of conducting a dairy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By delays. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of one denies a request. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. serving to make dignified.
Syn. -- ennobling. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the act of soiling something.
Syn. -- soiling, soilure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dying manner; as if at the point of death. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of making empty. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. clarifying by use of examples.
Syn. -- illustrative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. moving or functioning quickly and energetically; as, a fast-flying messenger.
Syn. -- fast flying, hurrying, speedy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Fly, v. i. ] Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flying army (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm. Farrow. --
Flying artillery (Mil.), artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position. --
Flying bridge,
Flying camp. See under Bridge, and Camp. --
Flying buttress (Arch.), a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch. --
Flying colors, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence:
To come off with flying colors, to be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking. --
Flying doe (Zool.), a young female kangaroo. --
Flying dragon. (a) (Zool.) See Dragon, 6. (b) A meteor. See under Dragon. --
Flying Dutchman. (a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail the seas till the day of judgment. (b) A spectral ship. --
Flying fish. (Zool.) See Flying fish, in the Vocabulary. --
Flying fox (Zool.), see Flying fox in the vocabulary. --
Flying frog (Zool.), either of two East Indian tree frogs of the genus Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and Rhacophorus pardalis), having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps. --
Flying gurnard (Zool.), a species of gurnard of the genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance. Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is Cephalacanthus volitans. --
Flying jib (Naut.), a sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom. --
Flying-jib boom (Naut.), an extension of the jib boom. --
Flying kites (Naut.), light sails carried only in fine weather. --
Flying lemur. (Zool.) See Colugo. --
Flying level (Civil Engin.), a reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc. --
Flying lizard. (Zool.) See Dragon, n. 6. --
Flying machine, any apparatus for navigating through the air, especially a heavier-than-air machine. --
Flying mouse (Zool.), the opossum mouse (Acrobates pygmæus), a marsupial of Australia. Called also feathertail glider. It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying squirrels, and a featherlike tail. --
Flying party (Mil.), a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy. --
Flying phalanger (Zool.), one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera Petaurus and Belideus, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel (Belideus sciureus), and the ariel (Belideus ariel), are the best known; -- called also squirrel petaurus and flying squirrel. See Sugar squirrel. --
Flying pinion, the fly of a clock. --
Flying sap (Mil.), the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth. --
Flying shot, a shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing. --
Flying spider. (Zool.) See Ballooning spider. --
Flying squid (Zool.), an oceanic squid (Ommastrephes Bartramii syn. Sthenoteuthis Bartramii), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel. --
Flying squirrel (Zool.) See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary. --
Flying start, a start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way. --
Flying torch (Mil.), a torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocœtus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) 1. a fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, which has a head resembling that of a fox. [ PJC ]

2. the colugo. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) either of two nocturnal lemurlike mammals inhabiting the East Indies (Cynocephalus variegatus) or the Phillipines (Cynocephalus volans) having broad folds of skin between the fore and hind limbs on both sides of the body allowing them to make long gliding leaps; they have been classed in the separate order Dermoptera. They are arboreal and have become rare. [ PJC ]

(Zool.) One of a group of squirrels, of the genus Glaucomys (formerly Pteromus and Sciuropterus [ 1913 Webster ]), especially Glaucomys volans and Glaucomys sabrinus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long, gliding leaps. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The species of Pteromys are large, with bushy tails, and inhabit southern Asia and the East Indies; those of Sciuropterus are smaller, with flat tails, and inhabit the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. The American species (Sciuropterus volucella) is also called Assapan. The Australian flying squirrels, or flying phalangers, are marsupials. See Flying phalanger (above). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process denoted by the verb fry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frying pan, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat, vegetables, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. giving personal satisfaction.
Syn. -- appreciated, pleasing, satisfying. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. occasioning pride; as, a gratifying accomplishment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. pleasing to the mind or feeling.
Syn. -- sweet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. affording pleasure or satisfaction.
Syn. -- enjoyable, pleasurable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Extravagant in opinions or ambition. “Highflying, arbitrary kings.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Flying at a high altitude; -- of airplanes. [ PJC ]

3. Having an excessively high cost or perceived value; temporarily very successful; -- of objects with respect to a market and people in their occupations; as, highflying internet stocks; highflying executives moving between companies. [ PJC ]

adv. In a hurrying manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. serving to distinguish or identify an object, person, species or group; as, we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- distinguishing, distinctive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. increasing in strength or intensity. [ Narrower terms: aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating ; augmentative, enhancive; deepening(prenominal), heightening(prenominal) ] moderating [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act or process of making an inventory; making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand.
Syn. -- inventory, stocktaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of traveling from one place to another.
Syn. -- journey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting. -- n. See Kite, n., 6. [ Cant ] McElrath. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Buddhism) A female Bodhisattva; often called Goddess of Mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon.
Syn. -- Kuan Yin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records; -- used of phonograph records.
Syn. -- long-play, LP. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level; as, low-lying clouds. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. at a low elevation above sea level.
Syn. -- sea-level. [ WordNet 1.5 ]