Chapter VII

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

plural of “advance” — a movement forward

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

(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 BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

changed in form or character without becoming something else

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

at all times; all the time and on every occasion

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

a feeling of delight at being entertained

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

plural of “ankle” — a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

plural of “bishop” — a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

a game played with playing cards

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

slightly wet

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

the first light of day

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

possessive form of “day” — time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

dearly loved

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

of or relating to or composed of knights

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

a notable achievement

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

detected or perceived by the sense of hearing

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

a female heir

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

the one or ones belonging to her

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

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

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

where you live at a particular time

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

immediately past

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

staying power

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

of greater importance or stature or rank

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

the time between one event, process, or period and another

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

above and across; more than

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

third-person singular of “plead” — appeal or request earnestly

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

deserving or inciting pity

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

any competition

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

put a saddle on

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

cut with a saw

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

being one more than sixteen

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

from a time in the past until now

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

to a small degree or extent

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

plural of “sort” — a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

having a supporting base

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

carry out

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

a special situation

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

a vagrant

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place

From this reading Poor thing! hers is a strange, hard, vagabond sort of life.

precisely as stated

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading The Major is but slightly altered since we saw him last at Bishops’-Baffler.

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

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.

(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

in or to any place at all

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

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

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

disposed or inclined toward

From this reading This very morning she has heard mass (being an Irish-woman) seventeen miles off, and she will be on her legs the whole of the livelong day, and have a good supper and a hard bed, and be up at dawn to-morrow, ready and willing for a forty-mile tramp wherever money is to be made; so, in the meantime, she hands up half-a-dozen damp cards to Gaston D’Orville, now Major in “The Loyals,” and this day principal acting-steward of “The Grand Military Steeple-Chase.”

be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

in the company of; together with

From this reading BOOT AND SADDLE “THE GRAND MILITARY”--SPORT, BUT NOT PLEASURE--WARLIKE ADVANCES--SOME OF ALL SORTS--AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT--THEY’RE OFF--RIDING TO WIN--FOLLOW-MY-LEADER--WELL OVER AND WELL IN--HOME IN A HURRY--A CLOSE RACE--THE HEIRESS WITH MANY FRIENDS--A DAY’S AMUSEMENT “Card of the running ’orses--_cor_-rect card!

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Major, dear, you always take a card of me!” pleads a weather-worn, good-looking, smart-ribboned card-woman, standing up to her ankles in mud on Guyville race-course.