adv. [ All (OE. al) + ready. ] Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. “Joseph was in Egypt already.” Exod. i. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It has reference to past time, but may be used for a future past; as, when you shall arrive, the business will be already completed, or will have been already completed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bachelerie. ] The body of young aspirants for knighthood. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room for balls or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beadleship. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bulrysche, bolroysche; of uncertain origin, perh. fr. bole stem + rush. ] (Bot.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name bulrush is applied in England especially to the cat-tail (Typha latifolia and Typha angustifolia) and to the lake club-rush (Scirpus lacustris); in America, to the Juncus effusus, and also to species of Scirpus or club-rush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Troops that are mounted on camels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. cavalerie, fr. It. cavalleria. See Cavalier, and cf. chivalry. ] (Mil.) That part of military force which serves on horseback. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Heavy cavalry and light cavalry are so distinguished by the character of their armament, and by the size of the men and horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cavalrymen One of a body of cavalry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back.
Syn. -- saber, sabre. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. OF. chapelerie. ] The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Chivalry. ] Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. chevalerus, chevalereus, fr. chevalier. See Chivalry. ] Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. [ 1913 Webster ]

In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chevalerie, fr. chevalier knight, OF., horseman. See Chevalier, and cf. Cavalry. ] 1. A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. “His Memphian chivalry.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

By his light
Did all the chivalry of England move,
To do brave acts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The glory of our Troy this day doth lie
On his fair worth and single chivalry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eng. Law) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Exploit. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Court of chivalry, a court formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England as judges, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a European bittercress (Dentaria bulbifera) having a knotted white rootstock.
Syn. -- coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ }, n. Joint rivalry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corivalry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. culrage, culrache; prob. fr. F. cul the buttok + F. & E. rage; F. curage. ] (Bot.) Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper). [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Devilries 1. Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stark lies and devilry. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole body of evil spirits. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lexicographer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ it>or }, a. Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch. [ Scot. & Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Finance) Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [ U. S., obsolescent ]. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or clubhouse, arranged for prompt service. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- grill. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Heimdal.
Syn. -- Heimdall, Heimdal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie, fr. hostel. See Hostel. ] An inn; a lodging house. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. “Homely brought up in a rude hostelry.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. joaillerie. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The art or trade of a jeweler. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) Same as Keelhaul. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The chemical symbol for lawrencium, a transuranic element of atomic number 103.
Syn. -- lawrencium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. meselrie, OF. mesellerie. See 1st Measle. ] Leprosy. [ Obs. ] R. of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Honey of roses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Leprosy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a channel from a millpond to a millwheel, to provide the water current that turns the millwheel.
Syn. -- millrun. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. See Milreis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a millrace.
Syn. -- millrace. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ Mill + rynd. ] (Her.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pg. mil reis, i. e., one thousand reis; mil a thousand + reis, pl. of real a rei. ] A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills (1913). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Switzerland) See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Nopalries A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Nurture. ] Nurture; education; culture; bringing up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nortelry . . . learned at the nunnery. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. novelerie. ] Novelty; new things. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A structure and associated machinery used in drilling for oil or gas; it is usually in the form of a tower. Called also drilling rig.
Syn. -- drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Pauldron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

Atmospheric railway,
Elevated railway, etc. See under Atmospheric, Elevated, etc. --
Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable. --
Ferry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, for carrying a train of cars across a water course. --
Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines. --
Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. --
Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. [ U.S. ] --
Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [ Eng. ] --
Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars. --
Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer. --
Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury. --
Underground railroad
Underground railway. (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city. (b) Formerly, a system of cooperation among certain active antislavery people in the United States prior to 1866, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada. [ In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was usually used. ] “Their house was a principal entrepôt of the underground railroad.” W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. reprochable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Deserving reproach; censurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Revel, v. i. & n. ] The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. [ 1913 Webster ]

And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Rivalries The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition. “Keen contention and eager rivalries.” Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Emulation; competition. See Emulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room in which pupils are taught. [ 1913 Webster ]