Chapter II

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

anew

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

how long something has existed

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Having no one else present.

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

(Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

present reasons and arguments

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

on or to one side

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

having undesirable or negative qualities

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

enter or assume a certain state or condition

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

third-person singular of “beg” — call upon in supplication; entreat

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

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From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

accept as true; take to be true

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

fearless and daring

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Bound written or printed works.

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

show off

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “brain” — that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

make by combining materials and parts

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

assets available for use in the production of further assets

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

form by carving

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

put or send forth

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a person who is rejected (from society or home)

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

inflected form of “catch” — discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

clothing in general

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

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From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

make or work out a plan for; devise

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a flow of electricity through a conductor

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

the first light of day

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “design” — the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

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From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

operate or control a vehicle

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

lacking in liveliness or animation

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

even

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

plural of “ear” — the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

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From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use “Europe” to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

possessive form of “europe” — the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use “Europe” to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

apart from; not including

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

opinion or judgment

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

third-person singular of “fail” — fail to do something; leave something undone

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

-ing form of “fear” — be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “feather” — the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

borne up by or suspended in a liquid

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “forest” — the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

create by hammering

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

dismiss from the mind; stop remembering

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

recently made, produced, or harvested

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

-ing form of “front” — be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

possessive form of “future” — the time yet to come

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

past form of “gain” — obtain

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a man of refinement

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a young female

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

-ing form of “glance” — throw a glance at; take a brief look at

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “glove” — the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a female deity

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the act of departing

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

shoot down, of birds

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

plural of “greek” — the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

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From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

half of the terrestrial globe

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

the one or ones belonging to her

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

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From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “hide” — the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

an indirect suggestion

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

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From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

where you live at a particular time

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the quality of being humane

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

low or inferior in station or quality

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

the removal of covering

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “instinct” — inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

moving to the inside of something

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

and nothing more

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

plural of “keep” — the financial means whereby one lives

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “king” — a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

plural of “lake” — a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

plural of “lie” — a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

plural of “lip” — either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

creative writing of recognized artistic value

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

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From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

third-person singular of “lose” — fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

engage in

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

plural of “make” — a recognizable kind

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

possessive form of “man” — an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

social deportment

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

involving the mind or an intellectual process

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

polished surface that forms images by reflecting light

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

used to form the superlative

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

to a great degree or extent

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

plural of “mumble” — a soft indistinct utterance

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

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From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

coming next after the eighteenth in position

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

many times at short intervals

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

To move from a closed position.

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

being in opposition or having an opponent

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

used with “to” to say what is right or advisable

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

above and across; more than

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

have ownership or possession of

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

make a painting

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “peak” — the most extreme possible amount or value

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

add pepper to

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

a human being

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

plural of “piece” — a separate part of a whole

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “pine” — a coniferous tree

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a geometric element that has position but no extension

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

capable of happening or existing

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “power” — possession of controlling influence

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

concerned with actual use or practice

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

any competition

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a rational motive for a belief or action

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “rebel” — “Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “river” — a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

an easy victory

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

an easy victory

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

free from danger or the risk of harm

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

traverse or travel on (a body of water)

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

express in words

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

an ordered reference standard

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

serve a purpose, role, or function

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

removing by cutting off or clipping

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the land along the edge of a body of water

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “shoulder” — the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

shake, as from cold

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

deliver by singing

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the state of being under the control of another person

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

plural of “slave” — a person who is owned by someone

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

express through a scornful smile

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

a short musical composition with words

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in the near future

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

be standing; be upright

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

wisdom in the management of public affairs

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a sculpture representing a human or animal

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

take without the owner's consent

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

bend one's back forward from the waist on down

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

plural of “strike” — a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

with strength or in a strong manner

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

be agreeable or acceptable to

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “suit” — a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

adjust to a specific need or market

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “take” — the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

To perceive flavor through the mouth.

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

express in words

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

express gratitude or show appreciation to

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

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From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used when the people doing the action are also its object

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

in or at that place or location

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

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From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

judge or regard; look upon; judge

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in spite of the fact that

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

pulsate or pound with abnormal force

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

closely constrained or constricted or constricting

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

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From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

inflected form of “tell” — express in words

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

plural of “try” — earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

a fact that has been verified

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

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From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in a vertical position; not sloping

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

plural of “vein” — a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

plural of “wave” — one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

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From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “weather” — the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

interlace by or as if by weaving

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

any or all of a kind, it does not matter which

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

at the time that

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in or at the place that

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

during the time that

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

which person or people

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading “You steal Englishmen’s books and think Englishmen’s thought, With their salt on her tail your wild eagle is caught; Your literature suits its each whisper and motion To what will be thought of it over the ocean; The cast clothes of Europe your statesmanship tries And mumbles again the old blarneys and lies;-- Forget Europe wholly, your veins throb with blood, To which the dull current in hers is but mud; Let her sneer, let her say your experiment fails, In her voice there’s a tremble e’en now while she rails, And your shore will soon be in the nature of things Covered thick with gilt drift-wood of castaway kings, Where alone, as it were in a Longfellow’s Waif Her fugitive pieces will find themselves safe.

disposed or inclined toward

From this reading Here a gentleman present, who had in hisattic More pepper than brains, shrieked,--“The man’s a fanatic, I’m a capital tailor with warm tar and feathers, And will make him a suit that’ll serve in all weathers; But we’ll argue the point first, I’m willing to reason ’t, Palaver before condemnation’s but decent; So, through my humble person, Humanity begs Of the friends of true freedom a loan of bad eggs.”

plural of “wind” — air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

in the company of; together with

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

of very poor quality or condition

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading “There are one or two things I should just like to hint, For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You’ve the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Though you brag of your New World, you don’t half believe in it; And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Heré’s, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass, Keeps glancing aside into Europe’s cracked glass, Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

used when the people spoken to are both doing and receiving the action

From this reading O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he ’Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea; Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines, By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs; Be true to yourselves and this new nineteenth age, As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page, Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new, To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, Keep your ears open wide to the Future’s first call, Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all, Stand fronting the dawn on Toil’s heaven-scaling peaks, And become my new race of more practical Greeks.-- Hem! your likeness at present, I shudder to tell o’t, Is that you have your slaves, and the Greek had his helot.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”

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From this reading But Apollo let one such a look of his show forth, As when ἥϊε νὐκτι ἐ οικώς, and so forth, And the gentleman somehow slunk out of the way, But, as he was going, gained courage to say,-- “At slavery in the abstract my whole soul rebels, I am as strongly opposed to ’t as any one else.”