Chapter I · Chapter 1

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading Talk about the prairie roses!

with affection

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

anew

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

(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 _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

causing inconvenience

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

in or to or toward a former location

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

Directly under; in or to a lower position than.

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

possessive form of “billy” — a short stout club used primarily by policemen

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “blast” — a very long fly ball

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “branch” — a division of some larger or more complex organization

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “button” — a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

make calm or still

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a female human offspring

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

lacking in light; not bright or harsh

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

inflected form of “drag” — pull, as against a resistance

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a person who is older than you are

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

all things; all of a situation

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

steadfast in affection or allegiance

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

formed or conceived by the imagination

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

comparative of “fierce” — marked by extreme and violent energy

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

moving swiftly

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

front part of a vessel or aircraft

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

characteristic of or befitting a friend

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

an ornamental facade

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “get” — a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

the act of acquiring something

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

a young female

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

a female deity

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

past form of “groan” — indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

an expression of greeting

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

to hook or entangle

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

past form of “hitch” — to hook or entangle

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

past form of “hobble” — walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

in place of, or as an alternative to

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

go away from a place

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

filled with a great quantity

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

lacking companions or companionship

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

darkened by clouds

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the force of workers available

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

a particular point in time

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a city in northeastern France in Lorraine

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “neighbor” — a person who lives (or is located) near another

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

not ever; at no time in the past or future

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

not any; not one

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

on one occasion

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

To move from a closed position.

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

arrange in a container

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

United States saxophonist and leader of the bop style of jazz (1920-1955)

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

seen in the mind as a mental image

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

tilling the land with a plow

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

a treeless grassy plain

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the state of being present; current existence

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

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From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

put an end to a state or an activity

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

(Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

-ing form of “rest” — not move; be in a resting position

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

an abstracted state of absorption

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “rose” — any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

From this reading Talk about the prairie roses!

the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

Identical; not different.

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

express in words

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

cause fear in

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a large beer glass

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

third-person singular of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

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

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

the act of firing a projectile

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

one of the twelve Apostles (first century)

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

past form of “sketch” — make a sketch of

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

depleted of energy, force, or strength

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

having a supporting base

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

plural of “stand” — a support or foundation

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

suffering from lack of food

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

possessive form of “stranger” — anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

happening without warning or in a short space of time

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

exchange thoughts; talk with

From this reading Talk about the prairie roses!

an exchange of ideas via conversation

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

From this reading Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner, Didn't hitch my team again; Spent the day with these new neighbors, Getting 'quainted with the men.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

in or at that place or location

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

judge or regard; look upon; judge

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

up to a particular time

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

make an effort or attempt

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

the act of using

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

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

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading Strange, she seems so kind of friendly When I'm awkward, every way, And my tongue gets hitched and hobbled, Everything I try to say!

wanting in physical strength

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

(used informally) very small

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

at the time that

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.

in the company of; together with

From this reading _To My Wee Daughter RACHEL ELLEN PARKER this little story is affectionately inscribed_ "I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night" (Frontispiece) "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed" "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door" "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain" "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light" "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'" "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack" "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre" "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree" "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death" "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm" "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat" BILLY'S REVERY No use talking, it's perplexing, Everything don't look the same; Never had these curious feelin's Till those MacIntyres came.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading Purtiest flow'rs in all the world, But they look like weeds for beauty When I think of that new girl.