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Urge :: Urge (v. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Hiss :: Hiss (v. i.) To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval..

Niello :: Niello (n.) An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.

Hub :: Hub (n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc..

Applaud :: Applaud (v. t.) To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve.

Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

Connotatively :: Connotatively (adv.) In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.

Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..

Diminuendo :: Diminuendo (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign..

Resistance :: Resistance (n.) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles..

Proof :: Proof (n.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet..

With :: With (prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like..

Language :: Language (v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.

Weatherglass :: Weatherglass (n.) An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope..

Wassail :: Wassail (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.

Amen :: Amen (interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily..

Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

Rocky :: Rocky (a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom..

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

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