aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
aliveadjectiveUS /əˈlaɪv/
possessing life
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
beesnounUS /biːz/
plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
bleatverb
talk whiningly
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
bloomingnounUS /ˈbluːmɪŋ/
the organic process of bearing flowers
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
brooksnounUS /brʊks/
United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
butterfliesnounUS /ˈbʌtərflaɪz/
plural of “butterfly” — diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
dellnounUS /del/
a small wooded hollow
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
to or in any or all places
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
plural of “flower” — a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
friskverbUS /frɪsk/
play boisterously
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
hivenounUS /haɪv/
a teeming multitude
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
how
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From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
humverbUS /hʌm/
sing with closed lips
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
lambsnounUS /læmz/
plural of “lamb” — young sheep
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
MAY-DAY
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MAY-DAY SONG.
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 "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
From this reading How sweetly, too, they smell!
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
a short musical composition with words
From this reading MAY-DAY SONG.
sweetlyadverbUS /ˈswiːtli/
in an affectionate or loving manner (“sweet” is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of “sweetly”)
From this reading How sweetly, too, they smell!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "The flowers are blooming everywhere, On every hill and dell, And O, how beautiful they are!
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "The little brooks, they dance along, And look so glad and gay; I love to hear their pleasant song, I feel as glad as they.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading How sweetly, too, they smell!
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading "The young lambs bleat and frisk about, The bees hum round their hive, The butterflies are coming out,-- 'Tis good to be alive.
