used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
AboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
bar-room
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From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
beautifulest
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From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
bitingadjectiveUS /ˈbaɪtɪŋ/
capable of wounding
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
bossyadjectiveUS /ˈbɔːsi/
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
Caleb
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From this reading "Well, middlin' handsome," replied Caleb, mischievously; "middlin' handsome."
Caleb's
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From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
cookienounUS /ˈkʊki/
any of various small flat sweet cakes (“biscuit” is the British term)
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
Don't
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From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
at any time
From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
the part of the face above the eyes
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
From this reading "Well, middlin' handsome," replied Caleb, mischievously; "middlin' handsome."
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
the act of retaining something
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading WALKING IN SLEEP.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
it's
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From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
middlin
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From this reading "Well, middlin' handsome," replied Caleb, mischievously; "middlin' handsome."
mischievouslyadverb
in a disobedient or naughty way
From this reading "Well, middlin' handsome," replied Caleb, mischievously; "middlin' handsome."
nibbledverbUS /ˈnɪbəld/
past form of “nibble” — bite off very small pieces
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
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, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
o'clockadverbUS /əˈklɑːk/
according to the clock
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
inflected form of “reply” — react verbally
From this reading "Well, middlin' handsome," replied Caleb, mischievously; "middlin' handsome."
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
cut with a saw
From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
shapedadjectiveUS /ʃeɪpt/
shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading WALKING IN SLEEP.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
close enough to be walked to
From this reading WALKING IN SLEEP.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
(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 "Well, middlin' handsome," replied Caleb, mischievously; "middlin' handsome."
at the time that
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
a Caucasian
From this reading "O, Caleb, when it's got a white place in its forehead shaped _so_!" said Willy, biting his cookie into something like the form of a star.
Willy
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From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
in the company of; together with
From this reading About seven o'clock, one cold evening, Willy was in the bar-room, sitting on Caleb's knee, and holding a private conversation with him, while he nibbled a cookie.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Don't you think it's the beautifulest bossy ever you saw?"
