Helen Fenton

Book: Definition and part of speech

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Book

  1. n. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
  2. n. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
  3. n. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
  4. n. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of “Paradise Lost.”
  5. n. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bonito: Definition and part of speech

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Bonito

  1. n. The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.
  2. n. A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
  3. n. The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.
  4. n. The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.