Bolt
(n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow |
Bolt
(n.) Lightning |
Bolt
(n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. |
Bolt
(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate |
Bolt
(n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner |
Bolt
(n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. |
Bolt
(n.) A bundle, as of oziers. |
Bolt
(v. t.) To shoot |
Bolt
(v. t.) To utter precipitately |
Bolt
(v. t.) To swallow without chewing |
Bolt
(v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. |
Bolt
(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth |
Bolt
(v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters |
Bolt
(v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow |
Bolt
(v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. |
Bolt
(v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path |
Bolt
(v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected |
Bolt
(adv.) In the manner of a bolt |
Bolt
(v. i.) A sudden spring or start |
Bolt
(v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. |
Bolt
(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected |
Bolt
(v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter |
Bolt
(v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting |
Bolt
(v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
Bolt
(n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal |
Captive
(n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war |
Captive
(n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection |
Captive
(a.) Made prisoner, especially in war |
Captive
(a.) Subdued by love |
Captive
(a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement |
Captive
(v. t.) To take prisoner |
House
(n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House
(n.) Household affairs |
House
(n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House
(n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House
(n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House
(n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House
(n.) A public house |
House
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House
(n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House
(n.) An audience |
House
(n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House
(n.) The grave. |
House
(v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House
(v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House
(v. t.) To admit to residence |
House
(v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House
(v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House
(v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |