The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery.

To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.

" To jostle by riding against one."

To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.

A large indefinite quantity.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.

See Bushman.

Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.

A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6).

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.

Alt. of Aaronical

Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols.

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French a (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

The act of abacinating.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.